This is the background paper for the productivity extension of the World Bank's Long-Term Growth Model (LTGM). Based on …, education, market efficiency, infrastructure, and institutions. Based on underlying proxies, the paper constructs indexes … Penn World Table, and assesses the pattern of productivity growth across regions and income groups over the same sample …

This paper investigates the sources of growth in manufacturing productivity in Cote D'Ivoire, Ethiopia and Tanzania in … reallocation of market share between firms contributed substantially to productivity growth in each of the four countries, although … impact on aggregate productivity growth than closing (or exiting) plants. Unlike the case with Cote D'Ivoire and of Ethiopia …

disparate actions of political parties and sector institutions. Ambitious targets for electricity access, liberalization, and …

This paper studies economic growth in Malaysia, with the purpose of assessing the potential to attain the status and … characteristics of a high-income country. Future economic growth is simulated under a business-as-usual baseline, where the growth …-Term Growth Model (LTGM). Under the business-as-usual baseline, Malaysia's GDP growth is expected to decline from 4.5 to 2 …

developing countries that seek to boost export growth but many of which suffer from poor contracting institutions …A growing body of work has shown that the quality of national institutions that enforce written contracts plays an … margin than the extensive margin of exporting. In addition, better contracting institutions increase the probability of …

adoption of two different types of participatory governance institutions influences municipal tax collection in Brazil …. Municipalities that voluntarily adopt participatory institutions collect significantly higher levels of taxes than similar … municipalities without these institutions. The paper provides evidence that moves scholarship on tax compliance beyond enforcement …

To what extent does immigration affect the economic institutions in destination countries? While there is much evidence … that economic institutions in developed nations are either unaffected or improved after immigration, there is little … evidence of how immigration affects the economic institutions of developing countries that typically have weaker institutions …

promote countercyclical fiscal policy and should be combined with strong institutions. Moreover, fiscal rules seem to limit …

preexisting vulnerabilities, the government's mobility restriction policy, institutions (democracy), and culture (individualistic …