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  • What matters to African firms ? the relevance of perceptions data (Inglés)

    Can perceptions data help us understand investment climate constraints facing the private sector? Or do firms simply complain about everything? In this paper, the authors provide a picture of how firms'...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS4446 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 2007 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Gelb,Alan Harold,Ramachandran,Vijaya,Shah,Manju Kedia,Turner,Ginger Leigh

  • How does influence-peddling impact industrial competition? Evidence from enterprise surveys in Africa (Inglés)

    Prior research has emphasized that the high costs and risks arising from a poor investment climate-lack of clear property rights, macro-instability, the burden of regulation and taxation, poor infrastructure...

    Tipo de documento: Evaluación del clima para las inversiones (ICA) Número del informe: 41972 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2007 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Ramachandran,Vijaya,Shah,Manju Kedia,Tata,Gaiv Maneck


  • Does the private sector care about AIDS? Evidence from investment climate surveys in East Africa (Inglés)

    This paper analyzes the determinants of firms' decision to provide HIV/AIDS prevention activities. Using data from 860 firms and 4,955 workers in Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya, it shows that larger firms...

    Tipo de documento: Desarrollo del sector privado, políticas industriales y de privatización Número del informe: 37171 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2006 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Ramachandran,Vijaya,Shah,Manju Kedia,Turner,Ginger Leigh

  • African small and medium enterprises, networks, and manufacturing performance (Inglés)

    This paper examines the role of private support institutions in determining small and medium enterprise (SME) growth and performance in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It finds that SMEs in SSA get around market...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS3855 Fecha del documento: 1 de febrero de 2006 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Biggs,Tyler S.,Shah,Manju Kedia

  • Summary of Madagascar's investment climate assessment (Inglés)

    Malagasy's private sector suffers from low productivity, particularly for non-EPZ firms, and a poor business environment which affects the sector as a whole. Export processing zone (EPZ) firms, however...

    Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 33673 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2005 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Cotton,Linda,Habyarimana,James Paul,Rossignol,Ivan,Shah,Manju Kedia

  • Summary of Benin investment climate assessment (Inglés)

    Since 1994, Benin 's gross domestic product growth performance has been superior to that of Sub-Saharan Africa, averaging 4.9 percent. The main driver of this growth is an economywide increase in total...

    Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 33684 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2005 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Affifi, Mouhssine,Alby,Philippe,Azam,Jean-Paul,Clarke George,Dia,Magueye,Marchat,Jean Michel Noel,Shah,Manju Kedia


  • Madagascar - Investment climate assessment (Inglés)

    This report provides an assessment of Madagascar's investment climate, based on a detailed survey of 293 enterprises in the manufacturing sector across Madagascar. Smaller surveys were conducted on tourism...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 35196 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2005 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Cotton,Linda,Habyarimana,James Paul,Shah,Manju Kedia,Rossignol,Ivan

  • Enhancing the competitiveness of Kenya's manufacturing sector: the role of the investment climate (Inglés)

    The objectives of the ICA are to assess the current performance of formal manufacturing firms, to identify the key constraints on their growth and competitiveness, and to prioritize and assess policy priorities...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 33664 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 2004 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Blattman,Christopher,Cotton,Linda,Desai,Vyjayanti Tharmaratnam,Elbadawi,Ibrahim Ahmed,Habyarimana,James Paul,Marchat,Jean Michel Noel,Ramachandran,Vijaya,Shah,Manju Kedia,Ajayi, Kehnide,Kimuyu,Peter K.,Ngugi,Rose,Bigsten,Arne L,Soderbom,Mans Martin

  • Competing in the global economy: an investment climate assessment for Uganda (Inglés)

    Uganda's economic growth since the late 1980s has resulted largely from restoring and rehabilitating the country's productive capacity. Going forward, growth will need to come increasingly from new investments...

    Tipo de documento: Evaluación del clima para las inversiones (ICA) Número del informe: 33698 Fecha del documento: 1 de agosto de 2004 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Cotton,Linda,Habyarimana,James Paul,Leechor,Chad,Marchat,Jean Michel Noel,Paton,John,Ramachandran,Vijaya,Shah,Manju Kedia,Wong,Michael D.

  • Mozambique industrial performance and investment climate 2003 (Inglés)

    For Mozambique to achieve its ambitious poverty reduction goals, it must maintain an annual growth rate of 8 percent over the next seven years. While this is within the range of recent performance, sustaining...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 33695 Fecha del documento: 1 de agosto de 2003 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Harding, Alan,Leechor,Chad,Nasir,John L.,Ramachandran,Vijaya,Shah,Manju Kedia,Srivastava,Pradeep,Wagle,Dileep M.,De Barros,Gilberto

  • Obstacles to the expansion of Eritrea's manufacturing sector (Inglés)

    The Eritrea Investment Climate Assessment (ICA) is based primarily on a survey conducted by the Regional Program on Enterprise Development (Africa Private Sector Unit) in Spring 2002. The team covered...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 33691 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 2002 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Cotton,Linda,Haile,Tesfay,Shah,Manju Kedia,Marchat,Jean Michel Noel,Miovic,Peter,Paton,John,Ramachandran,Vijaya

  • Results of the Nigeria firm survey (Inglés)

    The Nigerian economy has performed poorly since the late 1970s, resulting in stagnation and increasing poverty. Gross national product (GNP) per capita in 1999 was US$300, lower than the level attained...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 33739 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 2002 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Marchat,Jean Michel Noel,Nasir,John L.,Ramachandran,Vijaya,Shah,Manju Kedia,Tyler,Gerald D.,Zhao,Lan


  • Entrepreneurship and firm performance in Sub-Saharan Africa (Inglés)

    The development of the private sector in Sub-Saharan Africa is of crucial importance to the overall rate of economic growth of the region. Entrepreneurial firms have a prominent role in the private sector...

    Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 54859 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 1999 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Ramachandran,Vijaya,Shah,Manju Kedia

  • Minority entrepreneurs and private sector growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (Inglés)

    This study focuses on the role of entrepreneurs in the private sector in sub-Saharan Africa. Using data from the Regional Program on Enterprise Development (RPED) and controlling for various factors, our...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 56985 Fecha del documento: 1 de julio de 1999 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Shah,Manju Kedia,Ramachandran,Vijaya

  • Minority entrepreneurs and firm performance in Sub-Saharan Africa (Inglés)

    This study focuses on the role of entrepreneurs in the private sector in sub-Saharan Africa. Using data from the Regional Program on Enterprise Development (RPED) and controlling for various factors, our...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 33731 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 1998 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Ramachandran,Vijaya,Shah,Manju Kedia

  • Trade reforms, incentives on ground and firm performance in Ghana (Inglés)

    Ghana was one of the first African countries to initiate an IMF/World Bank-sponsored structural adjustment program. In 1983, the Government of Ghana (GOG) introduced its Economic Recovery Program after...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 33735 Fecha del documento: 1 de julio de 1997 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Biggs,Tyler S.,Shah,Manju Kedia