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-mainly with large fast-growing emerging economies-remains a challenge. Export performance is analyzed along three dimensions that …, together, give a fairly comprehensive picture of competitiveness: 1) the composition, orientation and growth of the export … basket; 2) the degree of export diversification across products and markets; and 3) the level of sophistication and quality …
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attached policy matrix. The objective of export incentives is to reduce the costs of exported products with policy instruments …
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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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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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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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"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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"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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"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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