Publication: What Have We Learned from a Decade of Manufacturing Enterprise Surveys in Africa?
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2006-08-02
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2006-08-02
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Bigsten, Arne
Söderbom, Måns
Abstract
In the early 1990s the World Bank
launched the Regional Program on Enterprise Development
(RPED) in several African countries, a key component of
which was to collect data on manufacturing firms. The data
sets built by these and subsequent enterprise surveys in
Africa generated considerable research. This article surveys
the research on the African business environment, focusing
on risk, access to credit, labor, and infrastructure, and on
how firms organize themselves and do business. It reviews
the research on enterprise performance, including enterprise
growth, investment, and exports. The article concludes with
a discussion of policy lessons.
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“Bigsten, Arne; Söderbom, Måns. 2006. What Have We Learned from a Decade of Manufacturing Enterprise Surveys in Africa?. World Bank Research Observer. © Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16424 License: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO.”
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