of the country. The manufacturing industry is studied in particular since a large part of the economic activity is … located in the North, relative to the rest of the country’s regions. The change in the manufacturing industry has been … distribution are the ones who seem to be most affected in terms of education investment by the decline of manufacturing activity in …

Why have so few countries in Sub-Saharan Africa been successful in export-oriented manufacturing? This paper uses firm … of the poor institutional environment on profits and the effect of limited competition on productivity measurement. …

This paper analyzes the relationship between the intensity of international trade flows and labor productivity for 28 … to labor productivity growth in the period 1990 to 2008. These channels, which have been developed in the theoretical …, of which several turn out significant. In addition to estimates for the total manufacturing sector, we also show results …

) that have maintained decent productivity growth. There are some sectors, especially in manufacturing, where the level of …Ontario's private sector has had zero productivity growth in the latest six year period. Ontario performed much worse … than the rest of Canada or the United States. This is obviously a cause for concern. Productivity is an important measure …

This study examines productivity and profitability of Italian manufacturing corporations in relation to IT usage and … productivity, although the significance of intensity variables depends on employment size and industry. The same occurs for some … the direction of causality between IT maturity, offshoring and productivity is also tentatively addressed: lagged …

the basis of industrial activities, employment size, capital base, pattern of linkages, and productivity levels and, (ii …