This paper examines the impact on total factor productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and in other …

for greater capital accumulation, without being fully reflected in a higher rate of total factor productivity (TFP) growth …

employs unique firm-level data from China's most energy-intensive large and medium-size industrial enterprises in each of … these four industries over a six-year period from 1999 to 2004. It empirically examines how China's energy-saving programs … intensity in all four industries. China's industrial policies targeting scale economies -- for example, "grasping the large …

Since the onset of economic reforms in 1978, China has been remarkably successful in reducing the carbon dioxide … competition, and technological change. China's industrial and technology policies also have contributed to lower carbon dioxide …

China is increasing its outlay on research and development and seeking to build an innovation system that will deliver … quick results not just in absorbing technology but also in pushing the technological envelope. China's spending on Ramp …;D rose from 1.1 percent of GDP in 2000 to 1.3 percent of GDP in 2005. On a purchasing power parity basis, China's research …

volatility at the firm level in China. The results suggest that in general, productivity volatility at the firm level has …The enterprise reforms of the 1990s profoundly changed the structure of the economy in China. With the deepening of … establishment and closure, of firms became a common phenomenon. The level and volatility of firm productivity have become …

Agriculture has made major contributions to China's economic growth and poverty reduction, but the literature has … rarely focused on the institutional factors that might underpin such structural transformation and productivity. This paper … government land reallocations and formal land-use certificates on agricultural productivity growth, as well as the likelihood of …

The authors investigate how institutions affect productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI) to China …'s domestic industrial enterprises during 1998-2007. They examine three institutional features that comprise aspects of China … for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries and Hong Kong (SAR of China), Taiwan (China), and Macau (SAR of …