This paper reviews the determinants of Latin America's uneven growth based on an accounting decomposition that breaks … down countries' growth (relative to the world) into three trade-related channels: (i) an export pull measuring the traction … brings to light three regional growth dynamics: the first is centered on commodities and South America, the second on …

This paper documents that structural change positively contributed to labor productivity growth in Guinea during 2006 …-15. However, the contribution of structural change to productivity growth was modest (about one percentage point per year on … of structural change to productivity growth has declined over time, mainly due to the increased labor market rigidity …

This is the background paper for the productivity extension of the World Bank's Long-Term Growth Model (LTGM). Based on … Penn World Table, and assesses the pattern of productivity growth across regions and income groups over the same sample … growth is decomposed into the share explained by each of its main determinants, and the relationship between productivity …

capital, and productivity; and 3) what potential growth scenarios for Syria there could be in the aftermath of war. Estimates …This paper addresses three questions: 1) what would have been the growth and income trajectory of Syria in the absence … of war; 2) given the war, what explains the reduction in economic growth in terms physical capital, labor force, human …

This paper investigates the sources of growth in manufacturing productivity in Cote D'Ivoire, Ethiopia and Tanzania in … reallocation of market share between firms contributed substantially to productivity growth in each of the four countries, although … impact on aggregate productivity growth than closing (or exiting) plants. Unlike the case with Cote D'Ivoire and of Ethiopia …

's openness to trade is positively associated with public employment in low- and middle-income countries, but inversely related in … income, population, and openness to trade, and to compare the actual levels with the predicted ones. In general, public …

growth by at most 6 percentage points between 1997 and 2005. This effect is substantial, but not as large as suggested by the … difference between the pre- and post-accession export growth rates in the four years before and after accession. This is because … growth in the period before accession in 2001 and accelerated it afterward …