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"Madagascar's textile and apparel industry has been among the fastest growing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Fueled by low labor costs, a fairly productive labor force, and preferential access to industrial countries, Madagascar's exports of textile and apparel products grew from about US
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Apparel production is especially labor intensive, with low start-up investments and easily transferable technology. Furthermore, the labor requirements can be easily met with low and semi-skilled workers, especially women. As a result, many countries with competitive labor costs, especially in...
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informal, and the impact of normalization on their profitability. The analysis finds that the impact of tax registration on … profitability depends on firm size and the ability to issue tax receipts, and presents a set of prioritized policy implications for …
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costs and provisioning for loan losses remain high compared to some other economies. Profitability of the aggregate banking …
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better understand the reasons why firms are informal and the impact of formalization on their profitability, in order to … registration on profitability depends on firm size and the ability to issue tax receipts. The smallest and the largest firms in the …
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"The paper evaluates the effects of privatization in the post-communist economies and China. In post …-communist economies privatization to foreign owners results in a rapid improvement in performance of firms, while performance effects of … privatization to domestic owners are less impressive and vary across regions, coinciding with differences in policies and …
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developing countries, tight budget constraints imply that privatization may be optimal for low profitability segments. For highly …"The paper analyzes governments' tradeoff between fiscal benefits and consumer surplus in privatization reforms of … noncompetitive industries in developing countries. Under privatization, the control rights are transferred to private interests so …
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"The authors analyze the impact of privatization on the performance of 116 electric utilities in 10 Latin American … the first systemic analysis of the impact of privatization on the distribution of the electricity sector. Second, it … picture of the effects of privatization on consumers. Fourth, this research covers a longer period of time, and evaluates …
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alternative will not grow unless rent, management, and tax reforms are boldly implemented and housing privatization truly …
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