This paper investigates the sources of growth in manufacturing productivity in Cote D'Ivoire, Ethiopia and Tanzania in … reallocation of market share between firms contributed substantially to productivity growth in each of the four countries, although … associated with increases in within-plant productivity. In addition, plant closure (or exit) boosted productivity more than new …

This paper examines productivity growth in Romania using balance sheet data for a census of Romanian firms in 2011 …-17. Three measures of productivity are estimated: labor productivity, revenue total factor productivity, and revenue total … factor productivity adjusted for markups. Drawing from these measures, the paper follows a two-step approach to answer two …