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 … growth. Reallocation of labor to sectors with higher productivity, such as industry and services, also contributed to …

that is correlated with firm size/productivity and one that is essentially permanent to the firm. The paper reports a broad …

Management of common-pool resources in the absence of individual pricing can lead to suboptimal allocation. In the …

large reduction in trade costs on the pattern of structural change and agricultural productivity. The paper develops a … productivity gains through agglomeration in the agriculture and manufacturing sectors. The model yields insights different from the … agricultural productivity despite significant de-industrialization; (ii) even with increased specialization in agriculture, the …

provincial administration of national business regulations affect firms through two channels: within-firm productivity levels and … resource allocation across firms. The results show that better overall business environment has a positive impact on firm … productivity, and this effect is driven by a reduction in corruption levels, the risks of land expropriation, and entry regulations …

between servicification and productivity in Turkey. Although servicification has the potential to boost firm performance, the … particularly less productive. Regulatory restrictions in services are explored as an explanatory factor. Productivity gaps appear …

urban productivity in Latin American cities. The use of night-time lights satellite imagery and high-resolution population … areas generates opposite effects on urban productivity. On the one hand, smaller governments tend to be more responsive and … efficient, which increases productivity. But, on the other hand, multiple local governments face coordination costs that reduce …

impedes productivity more at higher levels of regulation. The analysis finds that there is a significant negative relationship … between corruption and firm productivity when regulation is high and an insignificant relationship when it is low. These …