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Using a large, original database of 385 politically connected firms under the Mubarak regime in Egypt, we document for the first time the negative impact of cronyism on economic growth. In the early 2000s, a policy shift in Egypt led to the expansion of crony activities into new, previously...
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Several studies have highlighted information and communications technology (ICT) as a driver of firm productivity in … ultimately affect innovation and productivity in Uruguayan service firms compared to manufacturing firms. The results show that … productivity in services, but only ICT affects productivity in manufacturing. The absence of investment in ICT is associated with …
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This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor … productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 … Indian manufacturing industries. The paper then analyses the factors explaining productivity growth, technical change and …
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productivity leaving aside other effects that arise through the market selection process. Additionally, most studies have focused … Chile to analyze how trade affects aggregate productivity through the process of resource reallocation and to explore not …
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In the last decades, countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced a dramatic increase in the levels of higher education enrollment. Using administrative data from Chile and Colombia, we find that this phenomenon is not always associated with higher private individual returns. In...
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This study quantifies the impact of process and product innovation on employment growth in Bolivia by using microdata from a survey on innovation conducted in Bolivia in 2016. Following the model of Harrison, Jaumandreu, Mairesse, and Peters (2008) and the adaptations for Latin America of Crespi...
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This paper shows that using yields may not be informative of the relationship between farm size and productivity in the … context of small-scale farming. This occurs because, in addition to productivity, yields pick up size-dependent market … distortions and decreasing returns to scale. As a result, a positive relationship between farm productivity and land size may turn …
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This paper advances understanding of the relationship between tax policy and productivity, taking advantage of unique … data from the Dominican Republic to document a significant negative impact of tax regulations on total factor productivity … (TFP). It begins by estimating productivity using administrative records provided by the tax authorities. Then, it …
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