United States in Brazil's market when MERCOSUR trade liberalization and most-favored-nation (MFN) trade liberalization take …

The authors estimate that the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA), the EU-MERCOSUR agreement, and multilateral … FTAA and the EU-MERCOSUR agreement, while supporting multilateral liberalization through the Doha Agenda, will increase the …. Both the FTAA and the EU-MERCOSUR agreements are net trade-creating for the countries involved, but excluded countries …

intra-regional exporters use as inputs. Evidence from MERCOSUR suggests that eliminating duty drawbacks for intra …

This paper assesses two research questions: has the presence of foreign firms contributed to productivity increases in … foreign direct investment will see an increase in productivity after the fourth year. The paper finds evidence of negative but …

Uganda's growth in gross domestic product of the 2000s was accompanied by high growth rates of labor productivity … other fixed assets, but also entailed substantial gains in total factor productivity Based on data from two waves of the … Uganda Business Indicators survey this paper estimates that economy wide aggregate labor productivity and aggregate TFP grew …

as usage by firms, innovation, and productivity using firm-level data for a sample of six Sub-Saharan African countries … countries. However, the final impact on productivity depends on the degree of novelty of the innovation introduced by the firm …

This paper examines the role of changes in sectoral productivity gaps over time in accounting for growth realized by … countries over the past few decades. To quantify the productivity impact of the sectoral gaps, a simple model of resource … changes in distortions is because of unrealized gains suggested by high levels of present distortions, productivity gains are …

This paper provides evidence on the impacts of agricultural productivity on employment growth and structural …. Using rainfall as an instrument for agricultural productivity, empirical analysis finds a significant positive effect of … agricultural productivity growth on growth of informal (small-scale) manufacturing and skilled services employment, mainly in …

's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme on wages, labor supply, agricultural labor use, and productivity … productivity effects were modest, total employment generated by the program (but not employment in irrigation-related activities …) significantly increased productivity, suggesting alleviation of liquidity constraints and implicit insurance provision rather than …

Management has a large effect on the productivity of large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms … explains as much of the variation in outcomes — sales, profits, and labor productivity and total factor productivity — in …