"Developing countries are increasingly concerned about improving country competitiveness and productivity as they face … and imputing their impact on productivity, in order to prioritize policy reforms for enhancing competitiveness. Given the … of using different productivity measures based on data at the firm level. Their main objective is to develop a …

"The empirical evidence on whether participation in export markets increases plant-level productivity has been … productivity increases 4-5 percent for each additional year a plant has exported, after controlling for the effect of current … exports on total factor productivity. Learning-by-exporting is more important for young than for old plants and in industries …

irrigation water. Households with poor health are less likely to adopt productivity-enhancing as well as resource …

total factor productivity (TFP) in the South. Specifically, it examines the impact on TFP in the Republic of Korea, Mexico …-level data, they find that (1) technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be regional: Korea benefits mainly from trade …

"Feenstra and Kee study the link between export product variety and country productivity based on data from 34 … with within-country GDP maximization, as well as cross-country comparison. The authors construct country productivity based … on relative endowments and product variety. Increases in output product variety improve country productivity as the new …