wage distribution in Brazil during the 1988-95 trade liberalization. Unlike in other Latin American countries, trade …

connected poverty trends. The main focus of the authors is understanding, for the case of Brazil, how a trade shock interacts … productivity and stronger growth rates are attributed to trade reform, its contribution to medium-term poverty reduction is rather …

There is a growing literature that investigates the effect of trade liberalization on productivity. Nearly all such … studies assume that trade policy is determined independently of productivity, hence it is exogenous. The author shows that … the positive effect of liberalization on productivity when they do not account for the endogeneity bias. On the theory …

agricultural sector and a significant increase in rice productivity. A resulting increase in output has been associated with a …-ante approaches, the authors investigate the implications of the changes in rice productivity and prices for the welfare of households …. They find that the net effects of increased rice productivity and lower rice prices have benefited the poor. Regardless of …

The authors investigate the relationship between the productivity of African manufacturing firms and their access to … to calculate the total factor productivity of firms. The Enterprise Surveys also contain unique measures of firms' access … firm productivity and service performance in all three services sectors analyzed. The authors thus provide support for the …

linking this to productivity, which turns out to be important. The paper also provides an example of modeling productivity …

purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impacts of these changes in banking on total factor productivity. The authors first … obtain measures of bank level productivity by employing the techniques due to Levinsohn and Petrin (2003). They then relate … their private peers, and that privatization has increased productivity. …

This study measures the impact of investment climate factors on total factor productivity (TFP) of firms in Brazil and … productivity. In both countries, and in a variety of industry groups, indicators of poor investment climate, especially delays in … owned firms and firms located in the east. In Brazil, the results present an interesting contrast between the apparel …