More than a year and a half has passed since International Finance Corporation (IFC) Advisory Services in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (AS ECA) introduced a standard methodology for assessing aggregate cost savings (ACS) for businesses resulting from IFC-supported business enabling...

This paper tests whether structural or firm-specific characteristics contributed more to (labor) productivity growth in the European Union between 2003 and 2008. It combines the Amadeus firm-level data on productivity and firm characteristics with country-level data describing regulatory...

Despite the large potential of the agricultural sector in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, production is still limited by a lack of technical knowledge and, in many cases, an unwillingness to change agricultural practices inherited from Soviet times. The problem has more than one cause: poor...