productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity differentials across these firms exceed those implied by macro … show that if we allow for a non-linear effect of education on output the whole of the average productivity differences …

The underdeveloped service sector in Asia has the potential to become a new engine of economic growth for developing … Asia, which has traditionally relied on export-oriented manufacturing to power its growth. The central objective of this …, somewhat surprisingly in light of the difficulty of achieving productivity gains in services, we also find that services labor …

This paper examines the impact of local firms' participation in global value chains (GVCs) on productivity by … firm productivity and GVC participation: firms that enter GVCs have high productivity before participating in the GVCs … (selection effect), and only Indonesian firms which entered GVCs had a high productivity growth after joining GVCs (learning …

The use of e-commerce around the world has accelerated in recent years, with Asia, led by China, spearheading the rise …. Using cross-country enterprise survey data, this paper shows that firms engaged in e-commerce have higher productivity and … generate a larger share of their revenues from exports than other firms. This is particularly true in Asia, where firms have 30 …