firm productivity

Import competition from China can increase productivity among Indian firms not by lowering costs, but by encouraging innovation through quality upgrading.

In China, granting firms the right to trade internationally boosted productivity, with gains growing over time and shared with workers through higher wages.

In Ghana, a simple, low-cost intervention – helping informal workers set daily goals – significantly improved workers’ and firms’ performance, suggesting that non-binding incentives may be an effective means to foster the growth of small firms in dev...

When firms expect little help from the state, they over-adapt to shocks at the cost of long-term growth.

Firm productivity rises in privately run Indian SEZs but stagnates in public ones, suggesting that political interference fuels rent-seeking behaviour.

Evidence from Ecuador suggests that natural disasters have important but short-lived impacts on production and market conditions in developing countries that vary depending on firm differences in efficiency. From a development perspective, frequent s...

Increasing judicial staffing in frontline courts lowers the pending backlog of legal cases and enables capital stuck in litigation to be put to more productive uses, which increases access to working capital for local firms and improves firm producti...

Judicial reforms funded by foreign agencies increase firm productivity, but only in specific sectors where contract enforcement is more important

Pay inequality affects attendance, productivity and the social fabric of manufacturing workers in India, thus revealing impacts on firm productivity.