This paper attempts to distinguish and estimate the direct and indirect effects of infrastructure on firm productivity … kinds of infrastructure - road, telecommunication servers, and cable - are found to directly promote firm productivity; (2 …. The latter arises from the infrastructure-agglomeration link and has been largely overlooked in the literature on …

This paper investigates the sources of growth in manufacturing productivity in Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia and Tanzania in … reallocation of market share between firms contributed substantially to productivity growth in each of the four countries, although … associated with increases in within-plant productivity. In addition, plant closure (or exit) boosted productivity more than new …