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Like many countries, Sri Lanka has used Export Processing Zones as a means of promoting manufactured exports. This article uses a cost-benefit approach to estimate the returns to the national economy from the main zones. Overall, the zones are found to be economically efficient with an economic...
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This article uses the database from the World Bank study, Bureaucrats in Business, to test the hypothesis central to the study and much more recent policy thinking that countries with large state sectors have a poorer than average economic performance. Two tests are conducted: one, a simple...
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Survey data from small-scale manufacturing enterprises in Central Region, Ghana permit analysis of factors affecting performance, and of economic dynamism. The majority of the firms were sole proprietorships, with most of the hired labour being apprentices. A high proportion of rural-based...
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