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Productivity Losses and Firm Responses to Electricity Shortages: Evidence from Ghana

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dc.contributor.authorAbeberese, Ama Baafra
dc.contributor.authorAckah, Charles Godfred
dc.contributor.authorAsuming, Patrick Opoku
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-28T18:38:44Z
dc.date.available2023-08-28T18:38:44Z
dc.date.issued2019-11-02
dc.description.abstractOne of the commonly cited obstacles to firms’ operations in developing economies is inadequate access to electricity. This paper explores the impact of electricity outages on firm productivity using arguably exogenous variation in outages, induced by an electricity rationing program, across small and medium-sized Ghanaian manufacturing firms. The results indicate that eliminating outages in this setting could lead to an increase in firm productivity. Further analyses of the strategies firms use to cope with outages show that changing the firm's product mix to favor less electricity-intensive products mitigates the negative impacts of outages on productivity. However, using a generator, a common strategy in many parts of the world, is unable to insulate firms from the negative impacts of outages on productivity.en
dc.identifier.citationThe World Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/40275
dc.identifier.issn0258-6770 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1564-698X (online)
dc.identifier.urihttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/40275
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherPublished by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subjectPRODUCTIVITY
dc.subjectELECTRICITY
dc.subjectMANUFACTURING
dc.titleProductivity Losses and Firm Responses to Electricity Shortages: Evidence from Ghanaen
dc.typeJournal Article
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okr.associatedcontenthttps://academic.oup.com/wber/article/35/1/1/5611145 Journal website (version of record)
okr.crossref.titleProductivity Losses and Firm Responses to Electricity Shortages: Evidence from Ghana
okr.date.disclosure2023-08-28
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Journal Article
okr.identifier.doi10.1093/wber/lhz027
okr.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1596/40275
okr.language.supporteden
okr.pagenumber1-18
okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.region.geographicalWorld
okr.topicEnergy::Electric Power
okr.topicEnergy::Energy Demand
okr.topicEnergy::Energy and Natural Resources
okr.volume35 (1)
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