-invariant) characteristics of workers (innate ability) and any additional productivity that obtains in the context of employment in the specific …

Most of the world's poorest people depend on farming for their livelihood. Earnings from farming in low …

liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves …

this scenario. Further investigations indicate that more ambitious world trade liberalization leads to greater poverty … world prices more than offset the adverse own liberalization effects in this scenario. If the Rest of the World (ROW) and …

The authors investigate the relationship between the productivity of African manufacturing firms and their access to … services inputs. They use data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey for over 1,000 firms in 10 Sub-Saharan African countries … to calculate the total factor productivity of firms. The Enterprise Surveys also contain unique measures of firms' access …

sectors with a higher productivity gain are liberalized less. Finally, he illustrates a system of equations estimation and …There is a growing literature that investigates the effect of trade liberalization on productivity. Nearly all such … studies assume that trade policy is determined independently of productivity, hence it is exogenous. The author shows that …