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Africa's economic performance has been widely viewed with pessimism. This paper uses firm-level data for 89 countries …, total factor productivity levels and productivity growth. Africa's conditional advantage is higher in low-tech than in high … important role in explaining Africa's disadvantage in firm performance, the key factor is party monopoly. The longer a single …
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Data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys show that indirect costs (related to infrastructure and services) account for a relatively high share of firms' costs in poor African countries and pose a competitive burden on African firms. We estimate firm-level revenue and value-added functions for...
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