information on the top tail exists, especially regarding capital incomes …

and 10 areas that matter for development. Building on decade-long data collection by the World Bank Enterprise Surveys … countries in competitiveness outcomes such as productivity, innovation, export orientation, as well as the extent to which they … across regions and income groups. Differences in some key drivers of competitiveness, such as productivity, innovation, and …

-level data from more than 100 countries to study how female-headed firms differ from male-headed firms in productivity level and … individualistic culture. On average, female-headed firms have 9 to 16 percent lower productivity and 1.6 percentage points lower labor … productivity growth, compared with male-headed firms. The disadvantage is mainly in manufacturing firms, largely nonexistent in …

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 … an extensive literature review, the paper identifies the main determinants of economic productivity as innovation …

consistent with a model featuring the role of product standards heterogeneity across market destinations and productivity …

business environment variables at the subnational level in explaining firm employment and productivity growth. The analysis … critically important. By contrast, human capital and a list of refined business environment variables related to labor …

of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …

World Bank?s Long-Term Growth Model (LTGM), by separating the total capital stock into public and private portions, with the … former adjusted for its quality. The paper presents the Long-Term Growth Model Public Capital Extension (LTGM-PC) and … quality indicators for power, roads, and water as a cardinal measure of the quality of public capital in each country. In the …

, and beneficial tax regimes. There is a strong negative correlation between political connection and productivity …