the relative importance of national, regional and spatial factors for explaining variations of productivity. Our analysis … shows that initial economic conditions or agglomeration and centrality are indeed relevant for differences in productivity … levels. What is far more important, however, is which country a region belongs to. Productivity differences in the European …

This paper examines whether the productivity growth in the West-German states is influenced by the provision of public … infrastructure. Medium-term labour productivity growth and output growth varies a lot between German states. This differences are … more pronounced during the eighties. The traditional total factor productivity shows a smaller difference than labour …

-stock series. The Cobb-Douglas estimates show that China's total factor productivity was about 3.4 percent in the post-reform years …. Productivity of coastal provinces is higher than inner provinces. Among the various sources of investment finance, foreign direct …

This working paper offers a synthesis of the current knowledge on the determinants of productivity. It carefully …, industry-level innovation and dynamism) productivity drivers and demonstrates how the underlying spatial dynamics behind the … latter group makes all productivity determinants “spatial” in nature. The paper demonstrates that productivity is inherently …

the regional disparity in productivity growth in India and the People's Republic of China (PRC). The paper uses secondary … change effect on labor productivity growth (LPG) than the high-income and middle-income regions. Second, the structural …, and FDI for designing policies in order to reduce disparities in productivity growth, and hence economic growth, which …