"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 …-based, business networks. There are important links between these informal governance institutions and SME performance. Networks raise …

small firms. Measures to boost the productivity of micro and small firms in general will both help overall economic growth …

"Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across …

low productivity, low growth, and low quality of jobs. This study presents fresh qualitative and quantitative analyses to … productivity of micro and small firms in general will help overall economic growth, employment, and formalization. …

first propose three measures of firms' productive performance: labor productivity, total factor productivity, and technical … countries in the sample. The exception is Morocco, whose various measures of firm-level productivity rank close to the ones of …

productivity growth in Chile between 1992 and 2004. The authors estimate an extended production function where plant output growth … positive and significant effect of foreign direct investment in services on productivity growth of Chilean manufacturing plants … investment in services account for almost 5 percent of the observed increase in Chilean manufacturing productivity growth during …

productivity. "--World Bank web site …

"The author studies the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) for manufacturing firms in Bangladesh using …