High-growth firms have been widely studied in advanced countries, but little is known about such stellar performers in Africa. Using establishment-level data from Ethiopia, this paper finds that the incidence of high-growth firms stands at an average of 7 percent, a figure comparable to that of advanced countries. High-growth episodes are short-lived, and the likelihood of survival or a subsequent episode is not any higher for high-growth firms. It...
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2019/12/30
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Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas
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WPS9099
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2019/12/31
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Disclosed
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Firms Far Up : Productivity, Agglomeration, and High-Growth Firms in Ethiopia
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small and medium size enterprise