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

evidence demonstrates that foreign direct investment and trade can contribute to overall domestic productivity growth only when … and absorptive capacity of the country. The spillover effects in productivity are analyzed using a stochastic frontier … approach. This productivity (in terms of total factor productivity) is decomposed using a generalized Malmquist output oriented …

The role of innovation in improving productivity might vary according to a country's relative position in technology … innovation on output via productivity with representative manufacturing firms in Tunisia from 1997 to 2007. It finds that "buying …" has a positive effect on productivity whereas "creating" does not, which might imply that Tunisian firms do not invest …

structural route of the past, through manufacturing, to higher income, but with appropriate investments, they can develop high-productivity …

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