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Sources of manufacturing productivity growth in Africa

Jones, Patricia; Lartey, Emmanuel; Mengistae, Taye; … - 2019

This paper investigates the sources of growth in manufacturing productivity in Cote D'Ivoire, Ethiopia and Tanzania in comparison with the case of Bangladesh. Based on the analysis of establishment census data since the mid-1990s, it finds that reallocation of market share between firms...

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Nowcasting economic activity in times of COVID-19 : an approximation from the Google Community Mobility Report

Sampi, James; Jooste, Charl - 2020

This paper proposes a leading indicator, the "Google Mobility Index," for nowcasting monthly industrial production growth rates in selected economies in Latin America and the Caribbean. The index is constructed using the Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Report database via a Kalman filter. The...

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Malaysia Economic Monitor, December 2017 : Turmoil to Transformation, 20 Years after the Asian Financial Crisis

World Bank Group - 2017

The aim of the Malaysia Economic Monitor (MEM) is to foster better-informed policy analysis and debate regarding the … key challenges that Malaysia faces in its endeavor to achieve rapid, inclusive and sustainable economic growth. The MEM … a selected special topic that is key to Malaysia's development prospects, particularly as the country moves towards …

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Can Labor Market Imperfections Explain Changes in the Inverse Farm Size-Productivity Relationship? Longitudinal Evidence from Rural India

Deininger, Klaus W. - 2016

A large national farm panel from India covering a quarter century (1982, 1999, and 2008) is used to show that the inverse farm size-yield relationship weakened significantly over time, despite an increase in the dispersion of farm sizes. Key reasons are substitution of capital for labor in...

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Farm Size and Productivity : A "Direct-Inverse-Direct" Relationship

Savastano, Sara - 2017

This paper proposes a new interpretation of the farm size-productivity relationship. Using two rounds of the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey, and drawing on earlier work on five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, the paper shows that the relationship between farm size and productivity is neither...

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Entry barriers, idiosyncratic distortions, and the firm-size distribution

Jaef, Roberto N. Fattal - 2019

This paper studies the interaction between entry barriers and idiosyncratic distortions in the context of a standard model of firm dynamics. It derives a strategy to infer entry barriers based on the combination of cross-country data on average firm size, cross-country estimates of idiosyncratic...

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Survival of firms during economic crisis

Bosio, Erica; Djankov, Simeon; Jolevski, Filip; … - 2020

This paper estimates the survival time of nearly 7,000 firms in a dozen high-income and middle-income countries in a scenario of extreme economic distress, using the World Bank's Enterprises Surveys. Under the assumption that firms have no incoming revenues and cover only fixed costs, the median...

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Capital allocation in developing countries

David, Joel M.; Cusolito, Ana Paula; Venkateswaran, Venky; … - 2019

This paper investigates the sources of capital misallocation across a group of 11 developing and developed countries. The main findings are (i) technological frictions, namely, adjustment costs and uncertainty, account for only a modest share of observed misallocation, leaving ample scope for...

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Productivity Unplugged : The Challenges of Malaysia's Transition into a High-Income Country

World Bank Group - 2018

As Malaysia continues to strive toward high-income status, accelerating productivity growth has become the country … underscore the vital importance of productivity growth to the continued development of the Malaysian economy. Malaysia … standards of comparable countries. Weakening external demand and intensifying global competition in Malaysia's key export …

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Malaysia Economic Monitor, December 2016 : The Quest for Productivity Growth

World Bank Group - 2016

Malaysia's economic growth has slowed down but remains resilient to external headwinds. The economic growth rate slowed … remains on track despite lower oil-related revenues. External developments pose the greatest risk to Malaysia's growth … markets and its impact on the value of the ringgit. Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) has introduced measures to curb ringgit trading …

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