Do trade reforms that significantly reduce import barriers lead to faster economic growth? In
the twenty-five years since Rodríguez and Rodrik's (2000) critical survey of empirical work …

In principle, firms in develo** countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies
and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be …

This paper examines some of the recent literature on the estimation of production functions.
We focus on techniques suggested in two recent papers, Olley and Pakes (1996) and …

Purpose Drawing on organizational learning and dynamic capabilities literature, this study
aims to explore how suppliers from traditional emerging economies (STEE) can acquire …

One of the main policy sources of trade–cost changes is the formation of an economic
integration agreement (EIA), which potentially affects an importing country's welfare. This …

While the role of exports in promoting growth in general, and productivity in particular, has
been investigated empirically using aggregate data for countries and industries for a long …

Foodborne diseases exact a large health toll in low and middle-income countries. We review
the empirical research on the safety of food produced and consumed in these settings. We …

An East Asian Renaissance, by a World Bank team led by Chief Economist for East Asia &
Pacific, Dr Homi Kharas and Economic Adviser, Dr Indermit Gill is the first comprehensive …

In this chapter we explore the popular but controversial idea that develo** countries
benefit from abandoning policy neutrality vis-a-vis trade, FDI and resource allocation across …

We hypothesize that multinational firms operating in emerging markets transfer technology
to local suppliers to increase their productivity and to lower input prices. To avoid hold-up by …