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We use census panel data on Ethiopian manufacturing firms to analyze the connections between enterprise agglomeration …, firm-level output prices and physical productivity. We find a negative and statistically significant relationship between …
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The structure of the Nigerian economy is typical of an underdeveloped country. The primary sector, in particular, the oil and gas sector, dominates the gross domestic product accounting for over 95 per cent of export earnings and about 85 per cent of gove
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We consider economic development of sub-Saharan Africa from the perspective of slow convergence of productivity, both … across sectors and firms within sectors. Why have .productivity enclaves., islands of high productivity in a sea of smaller …
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This paper studies the growth performance of a large set of entrepreneurial firms in ten manufacturing sectors of …
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Reducing child malnutrition is a key goal of most developing countries. To combat child malnutrition with the right set of interventions, policymakers need to have a better understanding of its economic, social and policy determinants. While there is a large literature that investigates the...
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After the Second World War, Mozambique went through a series of transformations, from an incipient industrializing colonial society to an independent country with a central planned economy, plus a regional and internal war, and finally from 1994 onwards,
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This paper examines the theoretical and empirical evidence for the hypothesis that manufacturing is the main engine of … literature. The paper concludes that manufacturing will continue to be important in accelerating growth and achieving catch-up in …
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the decline in manufacturing employment is associated mainly with rising labour productivity in manufacturing …, by decomposing changes in the level and share of manufacturing employment. The results indicate that in most countries …
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