services in many developing economies may help accelerate productivity growth in their manufacturing sectors. "--World Bank web … 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 …

productivity and competitiveness. The Poland Investment Climate Assessment (ICA) is the first ICA piloted in the World Bank …Improving the investment climate is a key pillar of the World Bank's private sector development strategy. Without a …

Productivity and Investment Climate Survey in 2007 (PICS-II) to assess whether and how the investment environment had changed since …

Climate Assessments by the World Bank in 2000-2004. These surveys confirm a pattern of generally low "factory …-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 …

rest of the world. Second, this convergence process will be accompanied by a widening of income distribution in two …. "--World Bank web site …

inequality (inequality between citizens of the world). It discusses the relationship between globalization and global inequality …. And it shows why global inequality matters and proposes a scheme for global redistribution. "--World Bank web site …

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conducive to crisis can also be associated with more unequal societies."--World Bank web site …