pattern of international trade and production on the overall productivity growth of a developing country. A key result is that … productivity growth. The authors also find that a production-share weighted average of (technological leaders’) sectoral … productivity growth rates has a significant effect on the rate of aggregate productivity growth …

This paper estimates the effects of trade liberalization on plant productivity. In contrast to previous studies, we … distinguish between productivity gains arising from lower tariffs on final goods relative to lower tariffs on intermediate inputs …. Lower output tariffs can produce productivity gains by inducing tougher import competition whereas cheaper imported inputs …

. In particular, we discuss the joint impact of trade openness and political uncertainty. Our theory predicts that the … unique data set of primarily developing countries, the empirical findings support the theory and are robust under alterntive …

We investigate the long-run relationship between the real exchange rate, traded and nontraded productivity levels, and … find that in 1991 (the last year productivity data are available) there is less overvaluation of the U.S. dollar than that …

corruption increases public investment while reducing its productivity. These are five channels through which corruption lowers …