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 …

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 …

This paper examines the impact of Dollar exchange rate volatility on firm productivity in Emerging Markets economies … volatility reduces firm productivity growth. Exploring channels, its finds that the results are driven by countries with low …

hypotheses. In this paper, I build a panel structural vector autoregression (SVAR) model for a short panel of 119 countries over …

panel of 56 countries spanning 1989–2012. The level of productivity in each sector is defined as real value added per worker …This paper explains in detail the construction of series for productivity in the traded and nontraded sectors for a … more disaggregated industry source data; and (ii) it allows for meaningful comparisons of the level of productivity across …

broad panel ofcountries is very weak. Controlling for country fixed effects, time effects and initial GDP,a more depreciated … after controling for thesavings rate. Importantly, this applies for both a large panel of countries and for theemerging …

as on the three main growth channels: total factor productivity, physical capital accumulation, and human capital … (CPMG) methodology of Pesaran et al. (1999) for estimation. The latter takes account of cross-country heterogeneity and …