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...

The primary goal of this paper is to explore the microeconomic foundation of Korean firms' adoption of foreign technologies. The paper also reviews the overall trend of international technology transfers to Korea. The period covered in this paper is Korea's high growth era, from the 1960s to the...

México is the seventh world corn producer, in 2011 production reached 14.9 million tons. Despite of this production level, Mexican Republic is the second largest importer as it needs 10 million tons to meet mexican requirements. Main factors that have influenced are higher demand due to...