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The impact of business support services for small and medium enterprises on firm performance in low- and middle-income countries : a meta-analysis
Cravo, Túlio; Piza, Caio - 2016
often based on the assumption that market failures and institutional constraints impede the growth of SME growth … interventions despite the abundance of resources directed to SME business-support services. This paper systematically reviews and … summarizes 40 rigorous evaluations of SME-support services in LMICs and presents evidence to help inform policy debates. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521236
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Entrepreneurial innovations and taxation
Hauer, Andreas; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009387231
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Supporting light and small-scale manufacturing in the townships for inclusive industrialisation
Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies <Johannesburg> - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012649380
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Small firms and the pandemic : evidence from Latin America
Guerrero, Maria Elena; Humphries, John Eric; Neilson, … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012695875
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Covid-19 pandemic and SMEs' performance in Latin America
Cerda, Maikol; Cervantes, David; Gertler, Paul J.; … - 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic generated a large negative external shock to the global economy. Businesses worldwide were affected by economic, health, and mobility restrictions that impacted consumers' ability to access goods and services and firms' profitability and survival rates. In this paper, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014471300
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Access to water and COVID-19 : a regression discontinuity analysis for the peri-urban areas of metropolitan Lima, Peru
Gómez-Lobo, Andrés; Gutiérrez, Mauro; Huamaní, Sandro; … - 2022
This paper presents the results of a quasi-experimental study using information collected through a survey conducted in peri-urban areas of Metropolitan Lima between October and November 2021. The survey was applied to households residing close to and on both sides of the geographic boundary of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495187
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Environmental participation and environmental motivation
Torgler, Benno; García-Valiñas, María A.; Macintyre, … - 2008
We explore whether environmental motivation affects environmental behavior by focusing on volunteering. The paper first introduces a theoretical model of volunteering in environmental organizations. In a next step, it tests the hypothesis working with a large micro data set covering 32 countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799168
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The effect of spillovers and congestion on the segregative properties of endogenous jurisdiction structure formation
Oddou, Rémy - 2011
This paper analyzes the effect of spillovers and congestion of local public goods on the segregative properties of endogenous formation of jurisdiction. Households living in the same place form a jurisdiction and produce a local public good, that creates positive spillovers in other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009152223
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Why finance ministers favor carbon taxes, even if they do not take climate change into account
Franks, Max; Edenhofer, Ottmar; Lessmann, Kai - 2015
Fiscal considerations may shift governmental priorities away from environmental concerns: Finance ministers face strong demand for public expenditures such as infrastructure investments but they are constrained by international tax competition. We develop a multi-region model of tax competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513969
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Justifiability of littering : an empirical investigation
Torgler, Benno; García-Valiñas, María A.; Macintyre, … - 2008
The paper investigates the relationship between environmental participation and littering. Previous empirical work in the area of littering is scarce as is evidence regarding the determinants of littering behavior. We address these deficiencies, demonstrating a strong empirical link between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008773050