Most manufacturing activities use inputs from the financial and business services sectors.
But these services sectors also compete for resources with manufacturing activities …

This paper analyses the linkage between services and manufacturing productivity
performance, using firm‐level data for over 100 developing countries. We find strong …

Manufacturing firms have been increasingly focusing on services, a trend that is evident in
their composition of bought-in input and in-house production. The services intensity of firms …

We study the effect of services trade restrictions on manufacturing productivity for a broad
cross-section of countries at different stages of economic development. Decreasing services …

This paper analyzes whether and to what extent determinants of comparative advantage
have explanatory power for conventional services trade. It assesses the geographical …

This paper investigates how countries become specialised in exporting specific producer
services, particularly financial, communication and business services. We find that a …

Working with a mix of panel data on goods and services trade for the OECD for 1994–2004,
combined with social accounts data (ie data on intermediate linkages) for 78 countries …

India's prowess in the service sector has been recognised the world over. Sustaining
services exports is important not only to sustain India's high growth rate but also to …

In this paper, the authors analyze and compare the role of international trade for productivity
growth within the service and the manufacturing sector. They distinguish between trade in …

This paper provides the first evidence linking lower international trade costs with higher
productivity in services sectors. On average, lowering trade costs by 10% is associated with …