Management has a large effect on the productivity of large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms … Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria and Sri Lanka. We show that variation in business practices explains as much of … the variation in outcomes – sales, profits and labor productivity and TFP – in microenterprises as in larger enterprises …

pressure for banks in Kenya to modify their business operation models to adapt. Part of this modification emerging strategy … returns compensate for the risk taken. This paper aims to explore the aspect of de-risking by considering how productivity of … inter-sectoral linkages and their amplifying effect of inputs such as credit on growth and productivity. …

randomized controlled trial conducted by DrumNet in Kenya that attempts to help farmers adopt and market export crops. DrumNet …

-Saharan Africa (SSA) and also to firms in China and India, but also relatively less productive. Labor productivity in Kenya had not …The conclusions of the recently-conducted Kenya Investment Climate Assessment (ICA), based on a survey of 368 firms …, have a bearing on the country's growth agenda. The results have a bearing on the key issue of labor productivity and its …

study assesses the impact of changing meat and milk production on natural resource use in Kenya under three plausible … scenarios of socio-economic development, namely Business-As-Usual (BAU), Sustainable Development (SDP) and Kenya Vision 2030 (V … and SDP represent standard scenarios for Kenya of a global economic model, IMPACT, while V2030 incorporates in the model …

services survey in Kenya. By using a number of stylized productivity indicators, we aim to identify the ability of Kenyan firms …This technical note implements a firm-level productivity diagnostic using the census of manufacturing firms and a large …, implementing firm-level productivity diagnostics provide the necessary information for (i) improving the targeting of economic …

productivity has been low in most of Sub-Saharan Africa. It is often said that the binding constraint on African industrial … public policies on industrial productivity. The authors may be contacted at packh@wharton.upenn.edu or cpaxson@wws.princeton.edu …

controlled trial conducted by DrumNet in Kenya that attempts to help farmers adopt and market export crops. DrumNet provides …

We analyze the impact of trade liberalization on firm productivity growth in Kenya's manufacturing sector, using a … panel spanning 8 years; 1992-1999. Our analysis reveals that liberalizing trade generates high productivity improvements in … significantly increases firm-level productivity in the manufacturing sector by 5.7%. When we examine this effect on the firm's share …