due to investment incentives offered by other countries in the same geographic region. …

technologies affect both productive efficiency and product quality in the recipient firms? Under what circumstances do firms pursue …

changes in the efficiency of public spending could have a major impact on GDP and on the attainment of the government …'s objectives. The first challenge that stakeholders face is measuring efficiency. This paper attempts such quantification and has … two major parts. The first part estimates efficiency as the distance between observed input-output combinations and an …

Using panel data models, the author examines the threshold effects of the productivity of infrastructure investment in … particular, the productivity of infrastructure investment generally exhibits some network effects. When the available stock of … infrastructure is very low, investment in this sector has the same productivity as noninfrastructure investment. On the contrary …

undernourishment (hunger), largely through gaining farmers and others access to productivity-enhancing equipment, translating into … productivity, including higher cereal yields, through increased fertilizer and tractor use. Higher productivity in turn leads to …

ownership for efficiency between utilities and transport in developing countries. In transport, private operators have tended to …-country studies find no statistically significant difference in efficiency scores between public and private providers. As for the …

with formal institutions. Second, the impact of labor market institutions on productivity growth has probably been …

to total factor productivity (TFP) for North-North and North-South trade-related knowledge diffusion, with quantity … can obtain larger productivity gains from trade liberalization than previously thought. …

impacts found come from trained firms competing away sales from other businesses versus through productivity improvements, and …

less likely to be active in commercial farming than their male counterparts. These gender differences in land productivity … services. In this paper, the authors review the evidence on productivity differences and access to resources. They discuss some … productivity of land and overall production are likely to be large. …