This paper investigates the impact of global value chain participation on productivity, using data on trade in value … added from the World Input-Output Database. The results based on a panel estimation covering 13 sectors in 40 countries over … 15 years suggest that participation in global value chains is a significant driver of labor productivity. Backward …

Since the Global Financial Crisis, world trade growth has been subdued and lagging slightly behind growth of gross … trade-income relationship, and then investigates its consequences for economic growth. On the demand side, sluggish world … the supply side, slower trade may diminish the scope for productivity growth through increasing specialization and …

This paper focuses on the sluggish growth of world trade relative to income growth in recent years. The analysis uses …

services. The authors examine the link between those reforms and the productivity of manufacturing firms using panel data for … had significant, positive effects on the productivity of manufacturing firms. Services reforms benefited both foreign and … in the aggregate index of services liberalization resulted in a productivity increase of 11.7 percent for domestic firms …

study examines the link between services sector reforms and the productivity of domestic firms in downstream manufacturing … lead to two conclusions. First, the study finds that services policy matters for the productivity of manufacturing firms …

The authors investigate the relationship between the productivity of African manufacturing firms and their access to … services inputs. They use data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey for over 1,000 firms in 10 Sub-Saharan African countries … to calculate the total factor productivity of firms. The Enterprise Surveys also contain unique measures of firms' access …

evolution of comparative advantage and productivity in each country. The third is the divergence between the relatively shallow … global value chains as crucial drivers of productivity growth …