, the dynamic version of the "natural trading partners" hypothesis holds for these countries. "--World Bank web site …

contrast, domestic regulatory impediments to competition are not robustly correlated with product innovation. "--World Bank web …

that deliver a larger percentage of their exports to high-income countries. "--World Bank web site …

obtain measures of bank level productivity by employing the techniques due to Levinsohn and Petrin (2003). They then relate … such measures to a set of bank characteristics. Their main results indicate that state-owned banks are less productive than … their private peers, and that privatization has increased productivity. "--World Bank web site …