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The urgency of effective responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and the reliance of many low-income countries on imports of medical products, requires new approaches to regulation of these products. The challenge will be particularly acute for the new tests to identify infection, drugs to alleviate...
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Total factor productivity is a key element of economic growth and an important performance metric for policy makers …. This note describes the methodology for measuring firm-level total factor productivity using the World Bank's Enterprise …-output-based total factor productivity measures are less dispersed than the value-added ones …
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Agricultural development is an essential engine of growth and poverty reduction, yet agricultural data suffer from poor quality and narrow sectoral focus. There are several reasons for this: (i) difficult-to-measure smallholder agriculture is pr
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reflect physical productivity. Within-firm productivity changes from export entry are computed using a difference …-in-differences matching estimator. The findings show that, over a six-year period, the difference in productivity growth between export … international markets have largely been understated in the export-productivity empirical literature. This difference in productivity …
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-distributed firm productivity and fixed costs of exporting, predicts that, conditional on the fixed costs of exporting, all variation … lognormal distribution of firm productivity allows the Melitz model to successfully match the role of the intensive margin … methods and the EDD, a generalized Melitz model with a joint lognormal distribution for firm productivity, fixed costs and …
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Kemitraan to develop a study on evaluating the shift in term of delivery from FOB to CIF for Indonesian export products under …, rubber and shrimp, where these commodities are known as the main Indonesian export products.This study aims to evaluate the … shift in terms of delivery on four key export commodities as well as to explore the advantages and disadvantages of changing …
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This paper examines productivity dynamics and drivers for Pakistani firms listed in the stock exchange (publicly listed …, to assess their impact on productivity downstream. The paper presents three main findings. First, the productivity of … productive firms, and their productivity grows after being acquired. Exporters tend to exhibit productivity growth after becoming …
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productivity, which reinforces the importance of accounting for firm export status to study the evolution of productivity …This paper explores the link between exports and total factor productivity in Brazilian manufacturing firms over the … significantly, but with stagnant aggregate growth in total factor productivity. The paper first estimates firm-level total factor …
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In the past decade, hundreds of impact evaluation studies have measured the learning outcomes of education interventions in developing countries. The impact magnitudes are often reported in terms of "standard deviations," making them difficult to communicate to policy makers beyond education...
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Social scientists frequently rely on the cardinal comparability of test scores to assess achievement gaps between population subgroups and their evolution over time. This approach has been criticized due to the ordinal nature of test scores and the sensibility of results to order-preserving...
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