of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation, productivity, and output …-country data to study the effects of product market regulation and reform on a country's macroeconomic performance. After a brief …

The main purpose of this paper is to argue that the optimal design of regulation of water and sanitation monopolies …

-generating activities and restricting access to inputs, respectively—affect female farm productivity more deeply than male productivity. The … productivity gap. The paper shows empirically that agricultural labor productivity is on average 44 percent lower on plots managed …

This paper employs decomposition methods to analyze differences in agricultural productivity between male and female … gender differential in agricultural productivity is estimated at the mean in favor of male land managers, of which 10 … and divorced). Married female managers do not display such disadvantages. Further analysis along the productivity …

This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty … and productivity in cotton declined. With the improvement of the outgrower scheme of later years, farmers devoted larger … shares of land to cash crops, and farm productivity significantly increased. …

study examines the link between services sector reforms and the productivity of domestic firms in downstream manufacturing … lead to two conclusions. First, the study finds that services policy matters for the productivity of manufacturing firms …

, lining up with the increasing dispersion in growth. The authors then investigate empirically the regulation-growth link using … focusing on multifactor productivity (MFP), which plays a crucial role in GDP growth and accounts for a significant share of … its cross-country variance. Regressing MFP on both economywide indicators of regulation and privatization and industry …