Eifert, Benn; Gelb, Alan; Ramachandran, Vijaya - In: World Development 36 (2008) 9, pp. 1531-1546
Summary 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...