Recent research has emphasised the role of trade in productivity growth. The purpose of the present paper is to … imports and productivity growth. We focus on the European Union and find intra-union imports to have more of an effect on … total factor productivity growth than imports from the outside of the EU, even if only developed nonmember countries are …

economic growth is due to relative tradable productivity gains which cause rising relative non-traded prices. The puzzle is … that, while evidence on China’s productivity and prices supports this hypothesis, its real exchange rate showed no tendency … with WTO accession trade reforms, have more than offset the Balassa-Samuelson productivity effects. …

decline of prices from increased production. Agricultural productivity growth, however, is necessary for low-income countries … to take advantage of South Africa’s growth. The largest benefits for low-income countries result from rising productivity …

economists have measured extensively the extent to which productivity gains are transmitted across countries in the North … the importance that this source of productivity represents for countries in the South. This paper seeks to fill this gap …

integration through the effects on firm level productivity in Africa. We suggest that in the future, further growth analytical …