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Innovative firms or innovative owners? : determinants of innovation in micro, small, and medium enterprises
De Mel, Suresh - 2009
"Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394228
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Zanzibar - The Effect of the Investment Climate on Performance of Micro and Small Enterprise in Zanzibar : A Comparison with Mainland Tanzania and Other Countries
World Bank - 2012
This study looks at firm performance and the investment climate in Zanzibar. The main source of information is a 2003-2004 survey of manufacturing enterprises. The report is complementary to an earlier report looking at the investment climate in the whole of the United Republic of Tanzania,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553316
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African small and medium enterprises, networks, and manufacturing performance
Biggs, Tyler S. - 2006
"This paper examines the role of private support institutions in determining small and medium enterprise (SME) growth and performance in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It finds that SMEs in SSA get around market failures and lack of formal institutions by creating private governance systems in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522205
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Releasing constraints to growth or pushing on a string? : the impact of credit, training, business associations, and taxes on the performance of Mexican micro-firms
Fajnzylber, Pablo - 2006
"The authors employ propensity score matching and a traditional control function approach to examine the impact of participation in various societal institutions on microfirm performance in Mexico. They find that firms that participate in credit markets, receive training, pay taxes, and belong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522253
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Strengthening China's and India's trade and investment ties to the Middle East and North Africa
Pigato, Miria (contributor) - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011393337
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Market power and the matching of trade credit terms
Fabbri, Daniele - 2008
"This paper studies the decision of firms to extend trade credit to customers and its relation with their financing decisions. The authors use a novel firm-level database of Chinese SMEs with unique information on market power in both output and input markets and on the amount, terms, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521005
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Financing energy efficiency : lessons from Brazil, China, India, and beyond
Taylor, Robert Prescott (contributor) - 2008
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China Small and Medium Towns Overview
World Bank - 2013
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate substantially exceeded China's population growth, which averaged 1.4 percent … annually between 1978 and 2009, and real GDP per capita accordingly grew at 8.6 percent annually during this period. China … larger administrative units called cities (shi) and respectively towns (zhen). Cities and towns in China are expansive …
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