While the concept of social sustainability is growing in salience, there is little consensus on how to measure it. This … original measure of social sustainability and its associated fragilities in the form of multidimensional social gaps. The … measure is anchored conceptually in the new social sustainability in development framework and applied empirically using a …

This review examines the literature on the role of infrastructure in determining the productivity and competitiveness …, water, and telecommunications systems increases firm-level productivity. It also shows that providing infrastructure per se … is not enough to boost productivity, unless it offers reliable service. Disruptions and irregular service have …

This paper examines productivity growth in Romania using balance sheet data for a census of Romanian firms in 2011 …-17. Three measures of productivity are estimated: labor productivity, revenue total factor productivity, and revenue total … factor productivity adjusted for markups. Drawing from these measures, the paper follows a two-step approach to answer two …

establishment productivity and markups. The elimination of local barriers that were inconsistent with national legislation was the …. The paper finds that the elimination of subnational barriers to entry boosted the (revenue) productivity of establishments … raise the establishments' markups, which, if anything, declined, suggesting that physical productivity improved. The paper …

revenue per employee, value added per employee, total factor productivity, and employment growth. Improving the management … worker by 30 percent, and total factor productivity by 13.5 percent. What drives better management capabilities? Russian …

capital and slowing growth rates of total factor productivity and human capital. Strong reforms are required for Malaysia to …, and total factor productivity. In the strong reform scenario, based on growth drivers achieving a target corresponding to …