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ICT in Agriculture : Connecting Smallholders to Knowledge, Networks, and Institutions

World Bank - 2011

empirical knowledge of a wide range of agricultural sectors, from governance to supply chain management. As an online knowledge …

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ICT in Agriculture : Connecting Smallholders to Knowledge, Networks, and Institutions

World Bank - 2013

empirical knowledge of a wide range of agricultural sectors, from governance to supply chain management. As an online knowledge …

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African small and medium enterprises, networks, and manufacturing performance

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

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Increasing formality and productivity of Bolivian firms

2009

This book presents qualitative and quantitative analyses on Bolivia's informal sector, the reasons why firms are 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...

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Industrial clusters and micro and small enterprises in Africa : from survival to growth

Yoshino, Yutaka (contributor) - 2010

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Doing business 2013 : smarter regulations for small and medium-size enterprises

2012

Tenth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 185 economies, Doing Business 2013 measures regulations affecting 11 areas of everyday business activity: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit,...

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Doing Business 2014 : Understanding Regulations for Small and Medium-Size Enterprises

World Bank - 2013

Eleventh in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 189 economies, Doing Business 2014 measures regulations affecting 11 areas of everyday business activity including; starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting...

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Small businesses in South Africa : who outsources tax compliance work and why?

Coolidge, Jacqueline G. - 2009

"The authors use firm-level survey data on 998 small and medium enterprises registered for tax in South Africa regarding tax compliance costs to investigate the use of outsourcing to complete tax compliance tasks. Overall, about 43 percent of the enterprises do all their tax compliance work...

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Innovative firms or innovative owners? : determinants of innovation in micro, small, and medium enterprises

De Mel, Suresh J. - 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...

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Drivers and obstacles to banking SMEs : the role of competition and the institutional framework

Torre, Augusto de la - 2008

"This paper studies the factors banks perceive as drivers and obstacles to financing small and medium enterprises (SMEs … business, SMEs have become a strategic segment for most banks in both countries. In particular, banks have begun to target SMEs … due to the significant competition in the corporate and retail sectors. They perceive the SMEs market as highly profitable …

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