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 …

This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty … and productivity in cotton declined. With the improvement of the outgrower scheme of later years, farmers devoted larger … shares of land to cash crops, and farm productivity significantly increased …

impedes productivity more at higher levels of regulation. The analysis finds that there is a significant negative relationship … between corruption and firm productivity when regulation is high and an insignificant relationship when it is low. These …

of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output … country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country's macroeconomic performance. After a …

. 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 …

undernourishment (hunger), largely through gaining farmers and others access to productivity-enhancing equipment, translating into … productivity, including higher cereal yields, through increased fertilizer and tractor use. Higher productivity in turn leads to …

The authors investigate the relationship between the productivity of African manufacturing firms and their access to … to calculate the total factor productivity of firms. The Enterprise Surveys also contain unique measures of firms' access … firm productivity and service performance in all three services sectors analyzed. The authors thus provide support for the …

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 … alternative measures of productivity, the prevalence of ambiguous (countervailing signs) results, with little systematic pattern …

The author studies the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) for manufacturing firms in Bangladesh using data …