This paper examines the growth effects of different dimensions of international trade integration-notably, volume … trade dimensions for the region and the traditional sources of growth. Second, it empirically estimates the impact of trade … integration on growth per worker and the sources of growth; that is, growth of capital per worker and total factor productivity …

Ethiopia has achieved sustained high growth for more than a decade. At the same time, the country has been facing … economic growth. Currency undervaluation is a second-best policy intervention that can help offset some of the key constraints … to manufacturing growth prevalent in low-income countries and speed up structural transformation. However, exchange rate …

the average rate of economic growth in the Middle East and North Africa has not only been significantly lower than that in …

This paper reviews the determinants of Latin America's uneven growth based on an accounting decomposition that breaks … down countries' growth (relative to the world) into three trade-related channels: (i) an export pull measuring the traction … brings to light three regional growth dynamics: the first is centered on commodities and South America, the second on …

This is the background paper for the productivity extension of the World Bank's Long-Term Growth Model (LTGM). Based on … Penn World Table, and assesses the pattern of productivity growth across regions and income groups over the same sample … growth is decomposed into the share explained by each of its main determinants, and the relationship between productivity …

A large literature documents the positive influence of a city's skill structure on its rate of economic growth. By … contrast, the effect of a city's age structure on its economic growth has been a hitherto largely neglected area of research … or seniors. The paper sets out the potential channels through which such differential growth may occur. Using data from a …

Growth fluctuations exhibit substantial synchronization across countries, which has been viewed as reflecting a global … countries. This paper brings these two perspectives together by analyzing international growth fluctuations in a setting that … that the cross-country dependence of aggregate growth is the combined result of global shocks summarized by a latent common …

This paper addresses three questions: 1) what would have been the growth and income trajectory of Syria in the absence … of war; 2) given the war, what explains the reduction in economic growth in terms physical capital, labor force, human … capital, and productivity; and 3) what potential growth scenarios for Syria there could be in the aftermath of war. Estimates …

This paper investigates the sources of growth in manufacturing productivity in Cote D'Ivoire, Ethiopia and Tanzania in … reallocation of market share between firms contributed substantially to productivity growth in each of the four countries, although … impact on aggregate productivity growth than closing (or exiting) plants. Unlike the case with Cote D'Ivoire and of Ethiopia …