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"Drawing on the World Bank Investment Climate Assessment surveys, this paper investigates the relationship between firm-level technical efficiency and the investment climate for 22 developing economies and eight manufacturing industries. The authors first propose three measures of firms'...
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productivity growth in Chile between 1992 and 2004. The authors estimate an extended production function where plant output growth … depends on input growth and a weighted measure of foreign direct investment in services. The novelty of the approach is that … positive and significant effect of foreign direct investment in services on productivity growth of Chilean manufacturing plants …
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"Using recent matched employer-employee data from the manufacturing sector in 20 Sub-Saharan African countries, the authors analyze how the supply of skills and legal origin of the country affect the wage setting process. The wage analysis yields three main findings. First, increasing returns to...
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"The author studies the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) for manufacturing firms in Bangladesh using data from a recent survey. She obtains TFP measures by making use of firm-specific deflators for output and inputs. Controlling for industry, location, and year fixed effects, she...
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but not for white collar employment or capital, suggesting that export-led growth may be particularly successful in …
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"This paper examines the role of private support institutions in determining small and medium enterprise (SME) growth …
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"Since the early 1980s, China has begun gradually integrating with the global system. In doing so the country has moved toward its own unique brand of market socialism, which recognizes private ownership, and is adopting market institutions and pursuing industrial change within the framework of...
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