This paper analyzes the scale and productivity consequences of varied input use in Indian manufacturing using detailed … closer spatial proximity to one of India's largest cities. Plants in the organized sector utilizing a greater variety of … inputs display higher productivity, with the effects mostly concentrated among smaller plants with fewer than 50 employees …

level adoption of information and communications technology leads to increases in firm productivity and wages, and that the … effects are heterogeneous across firms, being larger for initially high-productivity and high-skill firms. The increase in … wages occurs even after controlling for skill composition, implying that there are productivity and rent-sharing mechanisms …

This paper examines empirically the links between adoption of information and communications technology (ICT), defined … as usage by firms, innovation, and productivity using firm-level data for a sample of six Sub-Saharan African countries … technology, and extent of competition are important factors explaining firm-level use of ICT. The results of the estimates …

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 …

with high opportunity cost elasticities of productivity improvement can lead to more accurate assessments of the …