Documentos e informes
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Why do firms choose to be informal? Evidence from enterprise surveys in Africa (Inglés)
This analysis looks at the determinants of firms' decisions to locate in the informal vs. formal sector. The authors test the hypothesis that firm decision-making regarding formality is based on a model...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 41971 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2007 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Desai,Vyjayanti Tharmaratnam,Ingram,Michael,Ramachandran,Vijaya
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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
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Why are there so few black-owned firms in in Africa? Preliminary results from enterprise survey data (Inglés)
Much of the growth in Sub-Saharan Africa in the past decade has come from extractive industries, rather than from private, entrepreneurial activity. Furthermore, non-extractive activity in the private...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 41993 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2007 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Ramachandran,Vijaya,Shah,Manju Kedia
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Inventories, liquidity, and contractual risk in African manufacturing (Inglés)
The econometric analysis presented here agrees with qualitative information collected during the survey. Conversations with survey respondents indicated that one of the major benefits of the structural...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 56896 Fecha del documento: 1 de agosto de 1999 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Fafchamps,Marcel,Gunning,Jan Willem,Oostendorp,Remco H.
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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
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Exports of African manufacturers : macro policy and firm behavior (Inglés)
Macro policy has changed the real exchange rates for African countries dramatically in the 1990s. In this paper the possible impact of macroeconomic policy on firms in the manufacturing sector is considered...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 56898 Fecha del documento: 1 de febrero de 1998 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Collier,Paul,Dercon,Stefan,Fafchamps,Marcel,Gauthier,Bernard P.,Gunning,Jan Willem,Habarurema, Jean,Isaksson, Anders,Oduro,Abena F. D.,Oostendorp,Remco H.,Pattillo, Cathy,Soderbom,Mans Martin,Teal,Francis John,Zeufack,Albert G.
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Are West-African immigrants discriminated in Cote d'Ivoire? (Inglés)
In this paper, author investigates whether West-African immigrants are discriminated in the manufacturing sector of Cote d'Ivoire. This is done by an analysis of their representation and returns to human...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 56894 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 1996 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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The provision of infrastructure and utilities and their impact on the performance of manufacturing firms in Cote d'Ivoire (Inglés)
Using data gathered in the framework of the World Bank project, the Regional Program on Enterprise Development (RPED), this paper describes the infrastructure and utilities constraints as they are experienced...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 33729 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 1996 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Goedhuys,Micheline,Sleuwaegen,Leo
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The size distribution and growth of manufacturing firms in Cote d'Ivoire (Inglés)
In this paper, we examine the size distribution of manufacturing firms in Cote d'Ivoire and analyze the underlying firm dynamics that generate the observed distribution. We also present the obstacles to...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 33727 Fecha del documento: 1 de agosto de 1996 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Goedhuys,Micheline,Sleuwaegen,Leo
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Fiscal incentives and private investment in Cote d'Ivoire : an investigation using RPED data (Inglés)
This paper is organized as follows: section two present the Regional Program on Enterprise Development (RPED) survey in Cote d'Ivoire and assesses its potential contribution to econometric analyses of...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 56900 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 1996 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Chapelle, Karine,Loko,Boileau,Marchat,Jean Michel Noel,Zeufack,Albert G.
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Enterprise finance in Kenya (Inglés)
In this report there are two chapters. Chapter one introduces the relation between firms need for funds and economic efficiency. The perverse effects of barriers to credit on industrial investment are...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 56872 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 1994 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Biggs,Tyler S.,Conning,Jonathan H.,Fafchamps,Marcel,Srivasatava, Pradeep