Following Solow's (2001) recent advice, this paper takes productivity as the left-hand-side variable and offers a cross … productivity estimates, and the second stage is devoted to analyzing these estimates. The paper classifies productivity … productivity model developed in this paper allows space for productivity determinants of all these different types and hence may …

from the World Bank’s Enterprise Surveys Indicator Database we assess how mediating factors influence productivity … three affect the extent and direction of FDI spillovers on domestic firm productivity. Moreover, we find that the impact of … mediating factors depends on domestic firms’ productivity and the structure of foreign ownership. …

This paper explores the productivity impact of trade, product market and financial market policies over the last decade … investigating the link between these policies and productivity growth depending on how far incumbents are relative to the … the potential channels through which productivity is affected by reform. The key conclusion that can be derived from the …

sector is highly segmented, with a relatively small core of modern high-productivity corporations, and myriad small, less … formal and low-productivity entities. This hampers efficient resource allocation and tends to entrench social inequalities … to be overcome to raise productivity in the informal, low-skill and low-productivity sector, and to facilitate resource …

general equilibrium model, this paper argues that climate change will negatively affect agricultural productivity in Africa …

productivity investment. The model connects small operational scales to the prevalence in poor countries of correlated distortions … (the elasticity between wedges and establishment productivity). The model also rationalizes the finding in poor countries … of low establishment-level productivity and low aggregate productivity investment. A calibrated version of the model …

structural change - final demand, the inter-industry division of labor and inter-industry productivity differences. It first …

This paper examines the relationship between the exposure to foreign trade and productivity growth for a sample of … Indian manufacturing firms. By testing a catching up model of productivity growth, it sheds some light on the nature of the … relationship between the exposure to foreign competition and productivity growth. It finds a non linear relationship between firms …

productivity growth. This exercise reveals that international capital flows are mainly shaped by government decisions and sovereign … aid flows, which are mostly accounted as debt, are also positively correlated with productivity growth consistent with the …

observed productivity gains from exposure to trade. The paper thus contributes to the identification of effective strategies … for encouraging export diversification among manufactured products in order to realize higher productivity and economic …