This paper empirically assesses the role of structural and institutional reforms in driving productivity growth across … reforms matter more for increasing productivity growth at the aggregate and sectoral levels for some emerging market and … payoffs, the paper also examines how productivity gains from various reforms evolve over the the short- and medium-term …

Labor productivity levels in Bulgaria lag well behind that in the EU, weighing on the convergence process. Stronger … productivity growth would allow Bulgaria to close the income gap with the EU average more quickly and to alleviate the structural … productivity suggest that for Bulgaria closing the gap with EU standards in the areas of institutional and infrastructure quality …

contribution of total factor productivity (TFP) to growth is largely responsible for the slowdown in trend growth in many SMICs …, which highlights the need for policy actions to reinvigorate productivity growth. This paper explores the question of what … kind of structural policies could boost productivity growth in SMICs and the political economy factors that may be …

as on the three main growth channels: total factor productivity, physical capital accumulation, and human capital …

This paper provides an empirical benchmarking of growth, productivity and export patterns for developing NREs against … lower incomes. Despite productivity convergence in mining, as expected, productivity growth in manufacturing and services … was generally lower in NREs. Exceptions are few, in East Asia and the CIS area which experienced broad-based productivity …

This paper examines the impact of highway expansion on aggregate productivity growth andsectoral reallocation between … indirect impact of trade costs on city productivity. I then construct an instrumentalvariable to examine the causal impact of … highways on economic outcomes and the underlyingchannels. The results suggest that highways promoted aggregate productivity …

Traditionally, shocks to total factor productivity (TFP) are considered exogenous and the employment response depends … reductions in TFP growth. These results have important policy implications, including that low productivity growth in some …

labor force participation is positively associated with labor productivity growth. Using panel data for 10 Canadian … educational attainment would raise Canada's overall labor productivity growth by 0.2 to 0.3 percentage point a year. This suggests …

productivity growth. Price levels, including of essential items, are also generally lowered with an increase in competition …