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 … from trade with the European Union, Korea from trade with Japan, and Mexico from trade with North America. In other words …

"Using 2005 firm level data for 26 countries in Eastern and Central Europe, this paper estimates performance gaps … in terms of total factor productivity, although the difference is small. However, women entrepreneurs generate the same …

This report presents a framework - Skills Toward Employment and Productivity (STEP), that provides a simple yet …

Republic of Korea, probit estimation results indicate that the publication of environmental news in print media and the firm …

"The health systems of Japan and the Asian Tigers--Hong Kong (China), the Republic of Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan … corporatization. Korea's experience with a narrow benefit package shows the danger of providers shifting demand from insured services …. Experiences with diagnosis-related groups in Korea and Taiwan (China) point to cost-savings but also to possible knock-on effects …

"In the aftermath of the 1997 East Asian financial crisis, the government of the Republic of Korea published a Private … paper reviews the procurement of PPI projects in Korea and benchmarks it to international best practices before proposing …