of the sources of productivity growth. In line with this framework, Chapter 1 begins with an overview of Thailand …'s productivity dynamics at the macroeconomic level and identifies the causes of its slowing GDP growth rate.7 Chapter 2 analyzes the … characteristics of Thai manufacturing firms and sub-sector productivity dynamics, revealing the drivers of firm productivity and …

decades. In Egypt, the disruptions caused by the pandemic started in March 2020, and has since interrupted a period of … Egypt weather the shock. Indeed, average real growth has remained positive during FY2019/20 and foreign reserves continue to … strains on Egyptian households' livelihoods, and is thus exacerbating the long-standing challenge of job-creation in Egypt …

--is part of a larger effort in the group to study the effects of bank privatization in developing countries"--World Bank web …

contrast, domestic regulatory impediments to competition are not robustly correlated with product innovation. "--World Bank web …

"The empirical evidence on whether participation in export markets increases plant-level productivity has been … productivity increases 4-5 percent for each additional year a plant has exported, after controlling for the effect of current … exports on total factor productivity. Learning-by-exporting is more important for young than for old plants and in industries …

obtain measures of bank level productivity by employing the techniques due to Levinsohn and Petrin (2003). They then relate … their private peers, and that privatization has increased productivity. "--World Bank web site … purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impacts of these changes in banking on total factor productivity. The authors first …