Analysis of trend components of production indices for May through July 2021 suggests that growth factors in trends for the extractive industries since the beginning of 2021 continue to have effect for two reasons: a pickup in demand for power-generating coal on the part of European and Asian...

This paper investigates the sources of growth in manufacturing productivity in Cote D'Ivoire, Ethiopia and Tanzania in comparison with the case of Bangladesh. Based on the analysis of establishment census data since the mid-1990s, it finds that reallocation of market share between firms...