Gelb, Alan; Mengistae, Taye; Ramachandran, Vijaya; … - 2009
microenterprises in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda, we find that the labor productivity of … informal firms is virtually indistinguishable from that of formal firms in East Africa, but very different in Southern Africa … better provision of services such as finance and electricity to formally registered firms in Southern Africa means that firms …