accompanying freely downloadable Excel-based tool. It also constructs a new Infrastructure Efficiency Index (IEI), by combining …

This paper provides a systematic, empirical assessment of the impact of infrastructure quality on the total factor … productivity (TFP) of African manufacturing firms. This measure is understood to include quality in the provision of customs … TFP, and allocative efficiency. For each country the impact is evaluated based on 10 different productivity measures …

Empirical explorations of the growth and productivity impacts of infrastructure have been characterized by ambiguous … indirect) channels of influence between infrastructure and productivity improvements. The authors explore these possibilities … of infrastructure on labor productivity, and the indirect impact of infrastructure on total factor productivity …

This paper investigates the sources of growth in manufacturing productivity in Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia and Tanzania in … reallocation of market share between firms contributed substantially to productivity growth in each of the four countries, although … associated with increases in within-plant productivity. In addition, plant closure (or exit) boosted productivity more than new …

between servicification and productivity in Turkey. Although servicification has the potential to boost firm performance, the … particularly less productive. Regulatory restrictions in services are explored as an explanatory factor. Productivity gaps appear …

in productivity gains from additional varieties of services, the analysis finds that real wages increase across all …

factor productivity and the OECD's foreign direct investment Regulatory Restrictiveness Index, combined with data from … observed increase in manufacturers' total factor productivity over the period. The total factor productivity gains accrue … both the transport and electricity, gas, and water sectors. Total factor productivity gains are associated, in particular …

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 …

productivity (TFP) of manufacturing firms. The results indicate that a standard deviation increase in services liberalization is …

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 …