The growth of India's manufacturing sector since 1991 has been attributed mostly to trade liberalization and more permissive industrial licensing. This paper demonstrates the significant impact of a neglected factor: India's policy reforms in services. The authors examine the link between those...

The authors investigate the relationship between the productivity of African manufacturing firms and their access to services inputs. They use data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey for over 1,000 firms in 10 Sub-Saharan African countries to calculate the total factor productivity of firms....

This paper uses micro data from the Indonesian Census of Manufacturing to analyze the causal relationship between foreign ownership and plant productivity. To control for the possible endogeneity of the FDI decision, the difference in differences approach is combined with a matching technique....

While there is considerable empirical evidence on the impact of liberalizing trade in goods, the effects of services liberalization have not been empirically established. Using firm-level data from the Czech Republic for the period 1998-2003, this study examines the link between services sector...

Aufbauend auf dem Sozial-Ökologischen Panel (SÖP), das im BMBF-geförderten Projekt Eval-MAP etabliert wurde, verfolgte das Forschungsvorhaben Eval-MAP II zwei Ziele: Erstens wurden unter-schiedliche Anpassungs- und Emissions-Vermeidungsmaßnahmen in ihrer Akzeptanz und Wirkung auf die...