"Drawing on the World Bank Investment Climate Assessment surveys, this paper investigates the relationship between firm …-level technical efficiency and the investment climate for 22 developing economies and eight manufacturing industries. The authors … the investment climate matters for firms' productive performance. This is true (depending on the industry) for the quality …

restructuring, as acquired plants increase their investment outlays, employment, and wages. Foreign ownership also appears to …

productivity improvements historically have been driven primarily by capital-intensive investment, which often involves sector …

"It is so widely recognized that innovation is a key driver of economic growth that it is cliche to say so. This … article studies product innovation by firms with data from 68 countries, covering more than 25,000 firms in eight … manufacturing sectors. The author assesses the predictions of inter-disciplinary research on innovation by firms. The econometric …

"Fujita and Hill compare and contrast Tokyo's innovation structure with the industrial districts model and the …, the national system of innovation, and the historical genesis of Tokyo in Japan's political economy. They find that the … Tokyo model of innovation will continue to evolve with the changing external environment, but fundamentally retain its main …

when competition is treated as endogenous to innovation. This paper--a product of the Growth and Investment Team … not feel pressure (Carlin and others 2001; World Bank 2004). However, competition also appears to affect innovation in … of competition and, consequently, assesses their net impact on innovation. He finds that reducing tariffs and enacting …

(Promoting Local Innovation). The Ethiopian program set up multi-stakeholder teams in different agro climatic zones. The paper …