the analysis is extensive use of data from comparable countries to benchmark Turkey's performance. Beyond description, the … Turkish firms' performance in such areas as productivity, export competitiveness and employment creation. A special aspect of … the report is its focus on Turkey's small and medium scale enterprise (SME) sector. …

"This paper studies how liberalization affects productivity growth using micro-level plant data. While previous studies … that, while the impact of liberalization on productivity growth is positive "on average", more advanced firms tend to … plants during the NAFTA liberalization. The results show that a 1 percent reduction in tariffs spurred productivity growth …

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. "--World Bank web site …

"The author studies the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) for manufacturing firms in Bangladesh using …

"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 …