This paper uses firm-level data from 119 developing countries to show that services sector productivity is positively … associated with manufacturing productivity. Moreover, the link between productivity in services and manufacturing is particularly … strong for manufacturing firms that are more intensive in their use of services inputs. At the mean level of services input …

This paper paints the first empirical portrait of services firms in the developing world. Compared with manufacturers … than for services exporters, the reverse is often true for foreign-owned firms. …

shows that services are prominent among the most agglomerated industries, especially at the county level. Because … services industries, this paper takes an alternative approach and looks at co-agglomeration to assess why industries cluster … customers – can be incorporated. The results show that co-agglomeration between pairs of services industries is driven by …

Europe’s market for services is fragmented by many regulatory barriers. The Services directive proposed by the European … Commission aims to integrate national services markets by reducing these barriers. Several studies indicate that bilateral trade … and foreign direct investment in services could boost substantially. GDP and consumption could increase by 0.5% to about 1 …

India’s success story in services is well documented at the national level, but similar literature does not exist for … India’s states. In this paper, we bridge this gap in research by looking at India’s services growth at the sub … services are and we provide evidence for this both in terms of traditional measures of sigma- and beta-convergence and more …