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South Africa - Constraints to Growth and Employment : Evidence of the Small, Medium and Micro Enterprise Firm Survey
World Bank - 2013
the degree to which firms in this survey have been expanding or contracting employment and investment levels, followed by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012558723
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Finance, firm size, and growth
Beck, Thorsten (contributor) - 2005
"The authors examine whether financial development boosts the growth of small firms more than large firms and hence provides information on the mechanisms through which financial development fosters aggregate economic growth. They define an industry's technological firm size as the firm size...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522713
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Industrial clusters and micro and small enterprises in Africa : from survival to growth
Yoshino, Yutaka (contributor) - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011393586
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Small enterprise growth and the rural investment climate : evidence from Tanzania
Kinda, Tidiane - 2008
"This paper analyzes characteristics of nonfarm enterprises, their employment growth patterns, and constraints in doing …, road infrastructure, and rural cell phone communication is correlated with employment growth. A major finding is that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521084
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Small and medium enterprises, growth, and poverty : cross-country evidence
Beck, Thorsten - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523259
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Turkey - Improving Conditions for SME Growth Finance and Innovation
World Bank - 2013
finance contributes significantly to SME performance in terms of employment, sales, and investment. Specific interventions in … SME growth performance and productivity is currently poor, and these related challenges must be simultaneously addressed … the form of credit guarantees and credit line financing of financial institutions dedicated to support SME financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557951
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Doing Business in 2005 : Removing Obstacles to Growth
2004
Doing Business in 2005: Removing Obstacles to Growth is the second in a series of annual reports investigating the scope and manner of regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. New quantitative indicators on business regulations and their enforcement can be compared...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245451
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The informal sector in francophone Africa : firm size, productivity and institutions
Benjamin, Nancy C. - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011393754
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The quality of the legal system, firm ownership, and firm size
Laeven, Luc - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523087