administrative microdata. It finds evidence of stronger productivity growth for firms supplying and operating in industries with more … spillover. Firms with intermediate productivity levels seem most likely to benefit from this effect. The results hold …

productivity is positively associated with the within-firm variance and the average level of technology sophistication. Development … productivity and one-fifth of the agricultural versus non-agricultural gap in cross-country differences in firm productivity …

"This paper surveys the recent literature which examines the impact of business climate variables on productivity and … 100 countries around the world. The literature that has analyzed this data provides evidence that a good business climate … drives growth by encouraging investment and higher productivity. Various infrastructure, finance, security, competition and …

This is the background paper for the productivity extension of the World Bank's Long-Term Growth Model (LTGM). Based on … Penn World Table, and assesses the pattern of productivity growth across regions and income groups over the same sample … an extensive literature review, the paper identifies the main determinants of economic productivity as innovation …

World Bank's Long-Term Growth Model (LTGM), by separating the total capital stock into public and private portions, with the …