The paper studies the drivers of productivity at country and sectoral levels over the period 2000-2017 with the focus … intangible digital capital for productivity growth, particularly in the manufacturing sectors. While backward global value chain … participation and EU integration are also found to be instrumental for accelerating productivity growth, the impact of inward …

hand, FDI knowledge spillovers decrease service productivity within regions, because of market-stealing effects operating …

formation and TFP. Capital goods trade enables poor countries to access more efficient technologies, leading to lower relative … allocate their resources more efficiently, and increase their TFP. We quantify these channels using a multisector, multicountry … half of the reduction in the income gap is due to the TFP channel …