We investigate the impact of U.S. bombing on later economic development in Vietnam. The Vietnam War featured the most …, consumption levels, infrastructure, literacy or population density through 2002. This finding suggests that local recovery from …

markets affects the relative productivity of firms across the region. Firms with foreign ownership and firms that export are … firm characteristics available in the database to explore the sources of export firms' greater productivity. We argue that … it is in aiming for export markets that firms make decisions that raise productivity. It is not simply that more …

dramatic differences in medical care technologies, prenatal conditions, and prenatal care at the move from Ethiopia to Israel …

Recent growth accelerations in Africa are characterized by increasing productivity in agriculture, a declining share of … firms, one for Tanzania covering 2008-2016 and one for Ethiopia covering 1996-2017. Our analysis reveals a dichotomy between …

.S. tariffs on Vietnamese exports. We find that the share of manufacturing workers in Vietnam in the formal sector increased by 5 …We study the effects of a positive export shock on labor allocation between the informal, microenterprise sector and … the formal firm sector in a low-income country. The U.S.-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement led to large reductions in U …

driven mostly by global commodity prices. In order to better understand the determinants of export success in Africa we …We establish the following stylized facts: (1) Exports are characterized by Big Hits, (2) the Big Hits change from one … are inconsistent with the traditional view that sees African exports as a passive commodity endowment, where changes are …

-existent, under-developed or emerging regulatory oversight, notably Africa. This paper assesses the quality of 1470 antibiotic and … tuberculosis drug samples that claim to be made in India and were sold in Africa, India, and five mid-income non-African countries … distribution of these substandard products is not random: they are more likely to be found as unregistered products in Africa than …

This paper shows that those low and middle income countries that use infrastructure inefficiently pay a growth penalty … in the form of a much smaller benefit from infrastructure investments. The magnitude of this penalty is apparent when the … growth experience of Africa is compared with that of East Asia: over one-quarter of the differential growth rate between …

the notion that benefits from infrastructure investments accrue in particular to peripheral regions, which gain access to …