Changes in two important location factors, markets and labor, are investigated for convergence and their relationship to the regional growth of manufacturing. Analysis of the spatial composition of labor suggests that the Manufacturing Belt has experienced skilled-labor-augmenting technical...

Trade, financial, and exchange rate reforms are shown to have exerted a positive impact on the growth of total factor productivity in Rwanda during the period 1995-2003. Based on a constant returns-to-scale Cobb-Douglas production function, this paper regresses total factor productivity on...