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Firm-level employment growth in South Africa : the role of innovation and exports
Naidoo, Karmen - 2019
This paper investigates the effect of innovation on employment growth at the firm level in South Africa. Innovation is …, the link between innovation and employment is more ambiguous. R&D targeted towards product innovation has been typically … associated with employment growth. Process innovations may have a positive effect, but also have the potential to reduce the …
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Taxation, infrastructure, and firm performance in developing countries
Chauvet, Lisa; Ferry, Marin - International Centre for Tax and Development - 2016
This paper investigates the relationship between taxation and firm performance in developing countries. Taking firm-level data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys (WBES) and tax data from the Government Revenue Dataset (ICTD/UNU-WIDER), our results suggest that tax revenue benefits to firm...
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On the persistence of growth for South African firms
Mamburu, Mulalo - 2018
The growth of firms has been shown to have a meaningful impact on the health of firms and the economy in general. As the body of literature dedicated to understanding high-growth firms has expanded, an interest in the persistence of growth has become even more relevant. This is because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874097
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Defining high-growth firms in South Africa
Mamburu, Mulalo - 2017
definitions concentrating on different variables such as turnover or employment growth. Using new South African firm-level data …
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The main obstacles to firms' growth in Senegal : implications for the long run
Maurel, Mathilde; Seghir, Majda - 2014
Productivity gains are the prime engine of economic growth. This paper uses a rich amount of firms' accounting information from the Single Information Collecting Centre in Senegal over the period 1998-2011. To investigate the two main obstacles to growth, poor education and poor access to...
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Importance of technological innovation for SME growth : evidence from India
Hillemane, Bala Subrahmanya Mungila; Mathirajan, M.; … - 2010
rates of innovative SMEs vis-à-vis non-innovative SMEs in terms of sales turnover, employment, and investment. Thereafter …-way ANOVA, and (iii) ascertaining the influence of innovation sales, along with investment growth and employment growth on gross …
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The missing middle : growing and strengthening Viet Nam's micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises
Co, Catherine Yap; Thu Kim Nguyen; Tung Nhu Nguyen; Que … - 2017
We study the exporting and subcontracting decisions, mark-ups, market concentration, and growth of a panel of Vietnamese private micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises. Our main findings are as follows. First, we find that among subcontractors, subcontracting is a supplementary rather than...
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Capital allocation, credit access, and firm growth in Viet Nam
Kinghan, Christina; Newman, Carol; O'Toole, Conor - 2018
limiting the investment and employment activities of firms with the highest marginal return on capital. A number of findings … limiting investment activity but not employment, particularly for firms with higher investment efficiency. This suggests a link …
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Partnership for inclusive growth : can linkages with large firms spur the growth of SMEs in Tanzania?
Kweka, Josephat P.; Sooi, Fadhili - 2020
A recent strand of literature on small and medium enterprise (SME) development identifies linkages with large firms as some of the enablers of development and competitiveness. However, there is a dearth of empirical studies on the topic. In this study, we assess the extent and determinants of...
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The agro-processing industry and its potential for structural transformation of the Ghanaian economy
Owoo, Nkechi S.; Lambon-Quayefio, Monica P. - 2017
The paper explores the potential of Ghana's agro-processing industry in contributing to the development and structural …
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