studies attempted to answer this question using ad hoc measures of port efficiency that do not control for the actual use of … port assets or measures that can be very noisy. To avoid these problems, this paper builds a measure of economic efficiency … Western Pacific Oceans in terms of their port efficiency, and assesses the effect of increased efficiency. It finds that …

Lifelong learning is increasingly being recognized as a primary factor for knowledge diffusion and productivity growth …

that corruption enhances efficiency …

electricity to illicit uses can increase overall economic efficiency when this leads to less electricity use by farmers, thus …

. This paper aims at assessing the impact of this rapid urbanization process on the country's sector productivity. The … econometric relation linking sector productivity to accessibility, localization, and urbanization economies, proxying variables in … urbanization economies, as well as market accessibility, are productivity-enhancing factors in Turkey, although the causation link …

There is a common perception that low productivity or low growth is due to what can be called an quot …

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 …