the impact of a particular regulation - license requirements for certain firm activities - on the innovation performance … led to an eight percentage points higher innovation rate within two years following the reform. We measure innovation as …

Over the last decades, productivity in the tradable sector rose substantially, while in the non-tradable sector, output … duality in higher education as well as heterogeneous ability of individuals can explain the differences in labor productivity … can explain that despite an increase in human capital in both sectors, there is still a gap in productivity. In other …

productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 … efficiency change using a Tobit regression for each industry. The results reveal that TFPG declined for all the sectors during … the period. The most significant factor affecting efficiency change, technical change and productivity growth is RD …

commitments in services. This paper examines the CEPA with the objective of identifying potential areas for harnessing services … enhanced trade in services. The paper also draws a comparison between the schedules of commitments offered by India and Korea … concludes that there are strong complementarities for services trade in sectors such as IT, transportation, construction and …

concept of global value chains. This has ushered in the role of services for linking the production network, resulting in a … greater composition of services in the value of tradable. Consequently, liberalisation of the entire value chain is being … addressed through trade agreements for efficient cross-country delivery of goods and services. This has also been the case with …

traditional services, the second wave of modern (financial, communication, computer, technical, legal, advertising and business …) services that are receptive to the application of information technologies and increasingly tradable across borders. In …

services has been broad-based. We show that the growth of service sector employment is not simply disguised manufacturing … modern sector and that modern services are only a viable destination for the highly skilled few. To the extent that the … expansion of both modern manufacturing and modern services is constrained by the availability of skilled labour, this just …

services are all important to contemporary firm competitiveness and participation in international value chains. Therefore …, historic policymaking divides between trade in manufactures and services, between export and import interests, and among modes …