The paper empirically examines the differential effects of trade on economic growth and investment based on cross … direct investment (FDI) across all country groups including LDCs, as well as domestic investment in both developing countries …, particularly via the investment channel, is an avenue through which LDCs, including African countries, can adopt new technologies …

The paper studies the drivers of productivity at country and sectoral levels over the period 2000-2017 with the focus … intangible digital capital for productivity growth, particularly in the manufacturing sectors. While backward global value chain … participation and EU integration are also found to be instrumental for accelerating productivity growth, the impact of inward …

The textbook neoclassical growth model predicts that countries with faster productivity growth should invest more and …

This study investigates: (i) the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on total factor productivity (TFP) and …

productivity growth in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) in the period 1995-2007. Using industry-level data and …-run productivity growth. Industries of higher-end technology intensity have experienced substantially higher productivity growth and so …

This study assesses the simultaneous openness hypothesis that trade modulates foreign direct investment (FDI) to induce … positive net effects on total factor productivity (TFP) dynamics. Twenty-five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and data for the …

This study assesses the simultaneous openness hypothesis that trade modulates foreign direct investment (FDI) to induce … positive net effects on total factor productivity (TFP) dynamics. Twenty‑five countries in Sub‑Saharan Africa and data for the …

vulnerable to financial frictions. By sheltering intangible investment from financial shocks, counter-cyclical macroeconomic … policy through the intangible investment channel, and its complementarity with pro-competition product market deregulation …

excessively on a few maturing sectors with limited scope for productivity growth. Furthermore, public investment has been crowded …The paper analyzes Jamaica's experience of low growth despite consistently high investment. Cross-country analysis … provides evidence of a significant and negative relationship between total public debt and productivity growth. Looking at the …