This paper investigates the role of services in the household response to trade reforms in Vietnam. The relative … following questions: What type of households, in which locations, having access to what type of services, benefited more from … the reforms? It focuses on services that have an impact on transaction costs (roads or quality of roads, public …

Uganda?s economy underwent significant structural change in the 2000s whereby the share of non-tradable services in … dimensions coincided with significant growth in aggregate labor productivity. However, in and of itself, the same reallocation … could only have held back, rather than aid, the observed productivity gains. This was because labor was more productive …

particularly less productive. Regulatory restrictions in services are explored as an explanatory factor. Productivity gaps appear …There is a global trend toward more production, use, and sale of services by manufacturing firms. This phenomenon is … known as the servicification of manufacturing. Services inputs as well as services activities within manufacturing firms …

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 …While there is considerable empirical evidence on the impact of liberalizing trade in goods, the effects of services …

factor productivity and the OECD's foreign direct investment Regulatory Restrictiveness Index, combined with data from … Indonesia?s input-output tables regarding the intensity with which manufacturing sectors use services inputs. Controlling for … observed increase in manufacturers' total factor productivity over the period. The total factor productivity gains accrue …

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 …This paper brings new evidence on the impact of services liberalization on the performance of manufacturing firms … services sector as a source of exogenous variation to identify the impact of services liberalization on total factor …

This paper is the first one to show the effects of services regulations on downstream firms in the goods and services … relatively services-oriented and show varying degrees of services regulations over time, namely the European Union. The paper … employs four alternative firm-level measures of total factor productivity that have recently been developed in the economics …

Globalization is creating many new trade and growth opportunities, with services trade increasingly becoming an issue … for export-oriented economies. Services are important to country trade strategies, because they represent activities in … Trade Analysis Project, and Trade in Services data), and firm-level data. The paper employs a wide range of indicators to …

services as a driver of urbanization and structural transformation is still not well understood. Using establishment level data … from India, this paper helps narrow this gap by comparing and contrasting the spatial development of services with that in … manufacturing. The study during the 2001-2010 period suggests that (i) services are more urbanized than manufacturing and are moving …