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 …

downstream sectors and the productivity of Romanian firms in the supplying industries. Further, the productivity of Romanian …

productivity growth in Chile between 1992 and 2004. The authors estimate an extended production function where plant output growth … positive and significant effect of foreign direct investment in services on productivity growth of Chilean manufacturing plants … investment in services account for almost 5 percent of the observed increase in Chilean manufacturing productivity growth during …

productivity and competitiveness. The Poland Investment Climate Assessment (ICA) is the first ICA piloted in the World Bank …

, including the large labor-surplus economies of China and India. The economy seems to be caught in a middle-income trap, unable … Productivity and Investment Climate Survey in 2007 (PICS-II) to assess whether and how the investment environment had changed since …

-floor" productivity, and show that this is partly due to business environment-related losses. The surveys also show the importance of high … indirect costs in further depressing the "net" productivity of African firms relative to those in other regions. Reforms are …

"The author discusses regional development patterns in China and examines effective ways of using development aid to …