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 …

Consortium (headquartered in Kiev, Ukraine) to investigate the impact of services liberalization on productivity, focusing on … productivity, exports and growth in the economy. They also show that the issue of services liberalization is important for the …

Tanzania. The model incorporates productivity effects in both goods and services markets endogenously, through a Dixit … the impact on the accumulation of capital from an improvement in the productivity of capital is taken into account …