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 …

Independent States.2 The main findings are as follows: (1) productivity gains in export-oriented sectors and expansion of exports …

productivity. Empirical results reported in this paper confirm this expectation: in low-income countries, factor productivity is … from a reduction in unsustainable fiscal deficits because of governance-related factor productivity responses that increase …

This paper estimates agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) in 162 countries between 1991 and 2015 and aims to …

-distributed firm productivity, which has become a tractable benchmark. This benchmark model predicts that, conditional on the fixed …-level productivity, fixed costs and demand shifters, and use 'exact hat algebra' to quantify the effects of a decline in trade costs on …