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Africa. Using establishment-level data from Ethiopia, this paper finds that the incidence of high-growth firms stands at an … Ethiopia will repeat a high-growth event in the subsequent three-year period. This likelihood is not greater than that of … tight link between exemplary performance and initial plant productivity, which is robust to many controls, including plant …
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Many governments in developing countries have pursued policies targeting specific geographic areas over the past several decades. However, only a few have rigorously evaluated the causal impact of these interventions. This paper examines the effectiveness of a prominent place-based policy in...
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The 2014-15 Ebola epidemic took a devastating human and economic toll on three West African countries, of which Liberia was perhaps the hardest hit. The pathways through which the crisis affected economic activity in these largely agrarian societies remain poorly understood. To study these...
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