"This paper surveys the recent literature which examines the impact of business climate variables on productivity and … 100 countries around the world. The literature that has analyzed this data provides evidence that a good business climate … drives growth by encouraging investment and higher productivity. Various infrastructure, finance, security, competition and …

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

Caribbean Region"--World Bank web site …

larger effort in the group to understand the sources of growth and volatility"--World Bank web site …

and total factor productivity growth in small and large states in the South. There are three main findings. First …, productivity growth increases with North-South trade-related technology diffusion and education and the interaction between the two … their interaction on productivity growth in small states is more than three times that for large countries, with the …

of infrastructure on labor productivity, and the indirect impact of infrastructure on total factor productivity. "--World …"Empirical explorations of the growth and productivity impacts of infrastructure have been characterized by ambiguous … indirect) channels of influence between infrastructure and productivity improvements. The authors explore these possibilities …

with formal institutions. Second, the impact of labor market institutions on productivity growth has probably been … poorly and both could benefit from substantial reform. "--World Bank web site …

. The answer in this report is that Serbia will need to fundamentally alter its growth model to compete effectively in world … gains in productivity and competitiveness necessary to propel economic growth to a much higher trajectory. This cannot … the rate of productivity growth of Serbia s enterprises so that better export performance and sustained growth could be …