. This is especially harmful as manufacturing is highly reliant on well-functioning infrastructure.<P> Stronger manufacturing …The manufacturing sector has contributed little to income growth and its share in total merchandise exports has been … declining. Manufacturing has not brought much new employment, and most of the recent rise in manufacturing employment has been …

infrastructure, growth, and productivity in developing Asian countries. The main conclusion is that a number of countries in … developing Asia have significantly improved their basic infrastructure endowments in the recent past. This improvement appears to … factor accumulation, a direct effect, and that the impact on productivity is rather inconclusive. …

-country productivity. Design/methodology/approach – A panel data set for 15 Taiwanese manufacturing industries over the period between 1991 … and 2007 is employed for a model in which productivity is regressed on a measure of O-FDI. Findings – The study finds no … significant positive or negative effect of O-FDI on productivity. Breaking down the data by location of the investment, however …

manufacturing sector, but firm-level empirical supports are limited. Using the inter-regional firm data of the garment industry … firms mainly stems from high labour cost, while impact of inefficiency is quite small. Productivity accounts little for the …

-up of its manufacturing sector to Western economies, although productivity varied widely among Japanese regions. This paper …Essletzbichler J. and Kadokawa K. The evolution of regional labour productivities in Japanese manufacturing, 1968 …-2004. Regional Studies. The success of the Japanese economy in the post-war period was predicated on the rapid productivity catch …

Aufbaus der öffentlichen Infrastruktur sowie zur Finanzierung gewerblicher Investitionsfördermaßnahmen und sonstiger …

investment benchmarks for illiquid assets such as infrastructure.<P>Les investisseurs institutionnels et le financement des …

Australian and Canadian pension funds have been pioneers in infrastructure investing since the early 1990s. They also … have the highest asset allocation to infrastructure around the globe today. This paper compares and contrasts the … experience of institutional investors in the two countries looking at factors such as infrastructure policies, the pension system …

This paper describes the different institutional frameworks for infrastructure policy in Germany and France. The … economic effects of infrastructure are estimated econometrically for German and French regions. We find evidence that regional … road infrastructure has a significant impact on regional output. Moreover, we find evidence that for Germany the priority …