business environment variables at the subnational level in explaining firm employment and productivity growth. The analysis …

accompanying freely downloadable Excel-based tool. It also constructs a new Infrastructure Efficiency Index (IEI), by combining … means that improving the efficiency of public investment has a sizable effect on growth in low-income countries …

This is the background paper for the productivity extension of the World Bank's Long-Term Growth Model (LTGM). Based on … an extensive literature review, the paper identifies the main determinants of economic productivity as innovation …, education, market efficiency, infrastructure, and institutions. Based on underlying proxies, the paper constructs indexes …

This paper examines the role of changes in sectoral productivity gaps over time in accounting for growth realized by … countries over the past few decades. To quantify the productivity impact of the sectoral gaps, a simple model of resource … changes in distortions is because of unrealized gains suggested by high levels of present distortions, productivity gains are …

accumulation, and total factor productivity, unlike previous periods. Resources play a role by attracting capital inflows …

This paper tests whether structural or firm-specific characteristics contributed more to (labor) productivity growth in … the European Union between 2003 and 2008. It combines the Amadeus firm-level data on productivity and firm characteristics … characteristics are most important for firm productivity growth, particularly the stock of inward foreign direct investment and the …

This paper is about micro foundations of productivity and growth. There are several studies on productivity for … productivity at firm, industry and national levels, but total factor productivity progressively tapers off at each level of … aggregation implying that there is a less than one-to-one relationship between micro-efficiency, sector growth, and macro growth …