productivity growth in Malaysia. Using data from the Department of Statistics Malaysia from 1987 to 2018 and decompositions that … structural transformation but instead to sustained growth in within-sector labor productivity. At 3 percent, the contribution of …, the main policy challenge for Malaysia going forward will be to achieve sustainable labor productivity growth within …

political bias in road infrastructure investment in a democratic setting, focusing on the case of Mexico. Using a regression …

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 …

Inadequate infrastructure impedes the productivity of manufacturing firms, with negative consequences for the wider … unreliable water supplies on the productivity of manufacturing firms, focusing predominately on firms in developing economies …, the study finds that incidents of water outages lead to lower firm productivity for firms in less developed economies. For …

Management has a large effect on the productivity of large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms … in Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, and Sri Lanka. This paper shows that variation in business practices … explains as much of the variation in outcomes-sales, profits, and labor productivity and total factor productivity …

-side channel: capital, labor, and productivity, with the last estimated using the stochastic frontier approach. By controlling for …