The study investigates the causal impact of trade openness and technology transfers on productivity growth in … technology diffusion affecting productivity growth in developing countries. On the contrary technologically non-intensive imports … (imports from the less innovative countries) tend to have petty or even negative effect on productivity growth. The findings …

Trefler (2004, AER) and others that industrial productivity increases more strongly in liberalized industries than in non … productivity increases more strongly in non-liberalized industries than in liberalized industries. …

We analyze the impact of trade liberalization on firm productivity growth in Kenya’s manufacturing sector, using a … panel spanning 8 years; 1992-1999. Our analysis reveals that liberalizing trade generates high productivity improvements in … significantly increases firm-level productivity in the manufacturing sector by 5.7%. When we examine this effect on the firm’s share …