This paper uses firm-level data from 119 developing countries to show that services sector productivity is positively … associated with manufacturing productivity. Moreover, the link between productivity in services and manufacturing is particularly … use in the dataset, a 10% improvement in services productivity is associated with a 0.6% improvement in manufacturing …

priorities and identify the most relevant variables in every process leading to the highest efficiency in reaching a sustainable …

The volume of work on productivity effects of research and development (R&D) investment has expanded significantly … to meta-analyse the research findings based on OECD firm and industry data, with a view to establish where the balance of … primary studies, we report that the average effect of R&D capital on productivity and the average rate of return on R …

change of mining to agricultural and livestock production farm, which allowed the emergence of a fledgling industry in a city … historical type, where quantitative aspects involved. It highlighted a growth in services in the real estate subsector with … slight decline in the manufacturing industry. A decrease in employment in the industrial sector from the year 2006 against an …

Given the magnitude of services growth and its inter-linkages with other sectors of the economy, it is important to … understand the impact of services sector on other macro-economic variables. The present paper attempts to identify some of the … critical issues in India’s services-led growth and tests certain hypotheses that are currently in debate. These relate to: (a …

taken a step further to globalization and liberalization, India has recognized the relevance of small enterprises. Enactment …

use a DEA method to construct the productivity frontier by sub-sector and size class, for business services in 13 EU … positive productivity effects. This holds for business services itself, but also wider, because of business services’ large …The paper proposes a new way of analysing the efficiency of dynamic market selection, based on the persistence of scale …