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

low productivity, low growth, and low quality of jobs. This study presents fresh qualitative and quantitative analyses to … 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 …

in terms of total factor productivity, although the difference is small. However, women entrepreneurs generate the same … amount of profit per unit of revenue as men. Although both male and female entrepreneurs in the region are sub … capital constrained and concentrated in industries with small firms. "--World Bank web site …

--is part of a larger effort in the group to study the effects of bank privatization in developing countries"--World Bank web …

obtain measures of bank level productivity by employing the techniques due to Levinsohn and Petrin (2003). They then relate … their private peers, and that privatization has increased productivity. "--World Bank web site … purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impacts of these changes in banking on total factor productivity. The authors first …

context of competition in the banking sector. In spite of significant gains in efficiency made in recent years, operational … costs and provisioning for loan losses remain high compared to some other economies. Profitability of the aggregate banking …