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Identifying gazelles: expert panels vs. surveys as a means to identify firms with rapid growth potential
Fafchamps, Marcel; Woodruff, Christopher - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2014
of enterprise growth, and use the baseline surveys and panel scores to construct measures of the potential for growth of … the enterprise. We find that a measure of ability correlates quite strongly with future growth, but that the panel scores … questions appear to have more power to explain the variance in growth. Participants presenting before the panel were give a …
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Micro-equity for microenterprises
De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2019
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Micro-Equity for Microenterprises
de Mel, Suresh - 2019
Many microenterprises in developing countries have high returns to capital, but also face risky revenue streams. In principle, equity offers several advantages over debt when financing investments of this nature, but the use of equity in practice has been largely limited to investments in much...
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Business practices in small firms in developing countries
McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2015
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Identifying gazelles : expert panels vs. surveys as a means to identify firms with rapid growth potential
Fafchamps, Marcel; Woodruff, Christopher - 2016
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Innovative firms or innovative owners? : determinants of innovation in micro, small, and medium enterprises
De Mel, Suresh J. - 2009
"Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation...
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The Demand for, and Consequences of, Formalization among Informal Firms in Sri Lanka
De Mel, Suresh - 2012
The majority of firms in most developing countries are informal. The authors of this paper conducted a field experiment in Sri Lanka that provided incentives for informal firms to formalize. Offering only information about the registration process and reimbursement for direct registration costs...
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Labor drops : experimental evidence on the return to additional labor in microenterprises
De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2016
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Labor drops : experimental evidence on the return to additional labor in microenterprises
De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2016
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What generates growth in microenterprises? : experimental evidence on capital, labor and training
De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2014
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