member of such a cluster initiative has an impact on the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) of the firm. We exploit firm … Flemish SHC policy on productivity. …

We consider economic development of sub-Saharan Africa from the perspective of slow convergence of productivity, both … across sectors and firms within sectors. Why have 'productivity enclaves', islands of high productivity in a sea of smaller … low-productivity firms, not diffused more rapidly? We summarize and analyse three sets of factors: First, the poor …

patterns in services reveal a segmentation that is characterized by high-productivity, high-wage services, low-productivity …The South African services sector is large and growing. This coupled with declining employment shares in manufacturing …, low-wage services, and government services. There has been sustained growth in services exports in the post-1994 period …

productivity, while subsectors such as business and transportation services display higher productivity and improve the environment …Despite Tanzania's rapid recent growth, the vast majority of employment creation has been in informal services. This … paper addresses the role that different subsectors of formal and informal services have played in Tanzania's growth. It …

-enhancing properties. The share of manufacturing in GDP has been declining slightly over time in South Africa, while that of services has … found to be especially important as a source of demand for the services sector and the rest of the economy through its …

patterns in services reveal a segmentation that is characterized by high-productivity, high-wage services, low-productivity …The South African services sector is large and growing. This coupled with declining employment shares in manufacturing …, low-wage services, and government services. There has been sustained growth in services exports in the post-1994 period …

productivity, while subsectors such as business and transportation services display higher productivity and improve the environment …Despite Tanzania's rapid recent growth, the vast majority of employment creation has been in informal services. This … paper addresses the role that different subsectors of formal and informal services have played in Tanzania's growth. It …

While the distinction between manufacturing and services becomes increasingly blurred to some observers, we find, using … result suggests a clear dichotomy between manufacturing and services in terms of how they react to trade and how they turn … towards the foreign market vs. the domestic market to find stimuli for innovation …

des emplois depuis les secteurs industriels vers les secteurs de services, les activités des entreprises deviennent plus … complexes et plus diversifiées, au point que la frontière entre services et industrie est aujourd’hui difficile à cerner. L … services pour autrui et que près du tiers produisent, en réalité, plus de services que de biens. Entre 1997 et 2007, cette …