larger effort in the vice presidency to improve measurement of vulnerability to poverty"--World Bank web site …

"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 …

This report presents a framework - Skills Toward Employment and Productivity (STEP), that provides a simple yet …, and practitioners. The report's emphasis on performance measurement and benchmarking, policy and program evaluation, and …