"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 …

scenario of extreme economic distress, using the World Bank's Enterprises Surveys. Under the assumption that firms have no … corroborated in the data, as potential exit is not predicated on the size of firms, their age, or their productivity …

Salinity in surface waters is on the rise throughout much of the world. Many factors contribute to this change … regional agricultural productivity to changes in water salinity. To do so, it utilizes several local and global data sets on … water quality and agricultural productivity and a model that isolates the impact of exogenous changes in water salinity on …