Harrison, Ann E.; Lin, Justin Yifu; Xu, Lixin Colin - In: World Development 63 (2014) C, pp. 59-77
manufacturing but not in services. The key factors explaining Africa’s disadvantage at the firm level are lack of infrastructure …Africa’s economic performance has been widely viewed with pessimism. In this paper, firm-level data for around 80 … productivity levels and growth. Africa’s conditional advantage is higher in low-tech than in high-tech manufacturing, and exists in …