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How do firms organize trade? : Evidence from Ghana
Krüger, Jens (contributor) - 2009
The literature on firm heterogeneity in international trade posits that only the most productive firms become exporters (Melitz 2003). However, empirical findings suggest that also firms that are not highly productive export. This paper investigates empirically how firms organize their export...
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Exports, Investment and Productivity Growth in Small Firms : A Firm-level Analysis from Tanzania and Ghana
Esaku, Stephen - 2020
This paper examines the effect of firm-level investment in capital on export entry and productivity growth among different firm size classes using matching and difference-in-differences techniques. We find that firm-level investment in capital reduces the burden of sunk costs of export market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014352090
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Organic pineapple farming in Ghana: A good choice for smallholders?
Kleemann, Linda - 2011
the pineapple sector in Ghana and extensive data from the European market, this paper tries to shed light on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285488
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On the Link between Trade Liberalization and Firm Productivity : Panel Data Evidence from Private Firms in Ghana
Hoedoafia, Mabel - 2020
The private sector is deemed as an engine of growth. As such, many developing countries including Ghana have sought to … Ghana's private sector using firm-level data from 1991 to 2001. In the first step, productivity is estimated via the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838174
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The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Firm Profitability in Ghana : Panel Evidence from Private Firms in the Manufacturing Sector
Hoedoafia, Mabel - 2021
Since 1983, Ghana has witnessed trade liberalization policies that were introduced as part of structural adjustment and … player in Ghana’s economic development since the sector is recognized as an engine of growth, hence, needed to accelerate the … in import restrictions in Ghana impacted on the performance of firms in terms of profitability in the private sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220572
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Why are Africa's female entrepreneurs not playing the export game? : evidence from Ghana
Ackah, Charles; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Hornok, … - 2020
We explore the export performance of Africa's underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel, a comprehensive dataset of manufacturing firms for 2011-2015. Uniquely, the data provides information about the severity of key business constraints, across both male and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012292964
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Why are Africa's female entrepreneurs not playing the export game? : evidence from Ghana
Ackah, Charles; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Hornok, … - 2020
We explore the export performance of Africa's underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel, a comprehensive dataset of manufacturing firms for 2011-2015. Uniquely, the data provides information about the severity of key business constraints, across both male and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296187
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Why are Africa's female entrepreneurs not playing the export game? : evidence from Ghana
Ackah, Charles; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Hornok, … - 2020
We explore the export performance of Africa’s underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel, a comprehensive dataset of manufacturing firms for 2011–2015. Uniquely, the data provides information about the severity of key business constraints, across both male and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012300585
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Mining spillovers and the formal-informal duality in manufacturing and services
Paul, Saumik; Raju, Dhushyanth - 2024
services. Using firm census data from 2014 for Ghana, we measure the rates of informality along extensive (unregistered firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474512
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Hoping to win, expected to lose : theory and lessons on micro enterprise development
Karlan, Dean; Knight, Ryan; Udry, Christopher - 2012
motivating experiment from Ghana, and second a small meta-analysis of other experiments. In the Ghana experiment, we provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009615069