total factor productivity growth in Korea, Mexico, and Jordan. Measures of foreign research and development are constructed … the South. The findings show that technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be regional. Jordan benefits mainly … from trade with the European Union, Korea from trade with Japan, and Mexico from trade with North America. In other words …

regarding tax compliance costs to investigate the use of outsourcing to complete tax compliance tasks. Overall, about 43 percent … remaining 46 percent use a combination of both ("partial outsourcing"). The data display an inverted-U shape for outsourcing of …

Initiative that involves two issues: cutting cotton subsidies and tariffs, and assisting farm productivity growth in Africa. The … tariffs globally, and (2) cotton productivity growth through the adoption of genetically modified (GM) cotton varieties. They …