Estimates of total factor productivity growth, a measure of increases in the efficiency of production, have … countries. This leads to incorrect measures of total factor productivity growth. Using data on natural resources from the World … Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, this paper makes new estimates of total factor productivity growth for 74 …

The effect of structural reforms on growth in Europe and Central Asia is assessed by looking separately at each supply …-side channel: capital, labor, and productivity, with the last estimated using the stochastic frontier approach. By controlling for …

"Using 2005 firm level data for 26 countries in Eastern and Central Europe, this paper estimates performance gaps … in terms of total factor productivity, although the difference is small. However, women entrepreneurs generate the same …

This paper describes the Services Trade Policy Database, a joint initiative by the World Bank and the World Trade … Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development database. The Services Trade Policy Database offers comparable information … on services trade policies for 68 economies in 23 subsectors across five broad areas - financial services …

This paper presents firm-level estimates of revenue-based total factor productivity premiums of manufacturing firms … adopting digital technology in 82 developing economies over 2002–19. The paper estimates productivity using the control … function approach and assuming an endogenous revenue-based total factor productivity process, which is a function of multiple …

as the impact of these activities on firm-level productivity. The evidence gathered suggests that countries in the South …-owned firms as the most innovative of the region. The evidence also suggests a positive impact of innovation on productivity …

growth. Reallocation of labor to sectors with higher productivity, such as industry and services, also contributed to …Over the past decades, East Asia and Pacific's productivity has been gradually catching up with the frontier (the … United States), with China leading the pack. Productivity growth has been driven by sustained within-sector productivity …