. Using household level data from rural Ethiopia, we demonstrate that while simple descriptive statistics and naïve …

This paper examines the causal relationship between exporting and productivity using a ten years long plant-level panel … data set from an annual census of Ethiopian manufacturing, rarely available in the sub-Saharan Africa. We exploited its … length to trace the trajectory of TFP and other productivity measures of groups of firms classified by their export history …

the labor force employed in agriculture and declining productivity in modern sectors such as manufacturing. To shed light …Recent growth accelerations in Africa are characterized by increasing productivity in agriculture, a declining share of … on this puzzle, we disaggregate firms in the manufacturing sector by size using two newly created panels of manufacturing …