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Journal Article

Identifying and Spurring High-Growth Entrepreneurship : Experimental Evidence from a Business Plan Competition

McKenzie, David

Almost all firms in developing countries have fewer than ten workers, with a modal size of one. Are there potential high-growth entrepreneurs, and can public policy help identify them and facilitate their growth? A large-scale national business plan competition in Nigeria provides evidence on these questions. Random as ...

Almost all firms in developing countries have fewer than ten workers, with a modal size of one. Are there potential high-growth entrepreneurs, and can public policy help identify them and facilitate t ...

Almost all firms in developing countries have fewer than ten workers, with a modal size of one. Are there potential high-growth entrepreneurs, and can public policy help identify them and facilitate their growth? A large-scale national business plan competition in Nigeria provides evidence on these questions. Random assignment of US$34 million in grants provided each winner with approximately US$50,000. Sur ...

111 downloads, 312 views

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Cameroon Country Economic Memorandum : Markets, Public Administration, and Growth

To become an upper-middle income country by 2035, as targeted in its Vision 2035 document, Cameroon will have to increase productivity and unleash the potential of its private sector. Specifically, Cameroon’s real GDP must grow by around 8 percent and 5.7 percent in p ...

To become an upper-middle income country by 2035, as targeted in its Vision 2035 document, Cameroon will have to increase productivity and unleash the potential ...

To become an upper-middle income country by 2035, as targeted in its Vision 2035 document, Cameroon will have to increase productivity and unleash the potential of its private sector. Specifically, Cameroon’s real GDP must grow by around 8 percent and 5.7 percent in per capita terms over 2015–2035, which in turn will require the i ...

1141 downloads, 648 views

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Can Business Owners Form Accurate Counterfactuals? : Eliciting Treatment and Control Beliefs about Their Outcomes in the Alternative Treatment Status

McKenzie, David

A survey of participants in a large-scale business plan competition experiment, in which winners received an average of U.S. $50,000 each, is used to elicit ex-post beliefs about what the outcomes would have been in the alternative treatment status. Participants are asked the percent chance they would be operating a fi ...

A survey of participants in a large-scale business plan competition experiment, in which winners received an average of U.S. $50,000 each, is used to elicit ex-post beliefs about what the outcomes wou ...

A survey of participants in a large-scale business plan competition experiment, in which winners received an average of U.S. $50,000 each, is used to elicit ex-post beliefs about what the outcomes would have been in the alternative treatment status. Participants are asked the percent chance they would be operating a firm, and the number of employees and monthly sales they would have, had their treatment sta ...

22 downloads, 62 views

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Taxing the Good? Distortions, Misallocation, and Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cirera, Xavier; Fattal Jaef, Roberto N.; Maemir, Hibret B.

This paper uses comprehensive and comparable firm-level manufacturing census data from four Sub-Saharan African countries to examine the extent, costs, and nature of within-industry resource misallocation across heterogeneous firms. The paper finds evidence of severe ...

This paper uses comprehensive and comparable firm-level manufacturing census data from four Sub-Saharan African countries to examine the extent, costs, and natur ...

This paper uses comprehensive and comparable firm-level manufacturing census data from four Sub-Saharan African countries to examine the extent, costs, and nature of within-industry resource misallocation across heterogeneous firms. The paper finds evidence of severe misallocation in which resources are diverted away from high-pro ...

427 downloads, 397 views

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ICT Use, Innovation, and Productivity : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Cirera, Xavier; Lage, Filipe; Sabetti, Leonard

This paper examines empirically the links between adoption of information and communications technology (ICT), defined as usage by firms, innovation, and productivity using firm-level data for a sample of six Sub-Saharan African countries: the Democratic Republic of ...

This paper examines empirically the links between adoption of information and communications technology (ICT), defined as usage by firms, innovation, and product ...

This paper examines empirically the links between adoption of information and communications technology (ICT), defined as usage by firms, innovation, and productivity using firm-level data for a sample of six Sub-Saharan African countries: the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Although ...

726 downloads, 830 views

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An Assessment of the Investment Climate in Nigeria : The Challenges of Nigeria’s Private Sector

This report presents employment in Nigeria from a worker perspective as well as from a firm perspective. Using recent household data, the report complements the report ‘more, and more productive, jobs for Nigeria: a profile of work and workers’ (World Bank 2015) ...

This report presents employment in Nigeria from a worker perspective as well as from a firm perspective. Using recent household data, the report complements the ...

This report presents employment in Nigeria from a worker perspective as well as from a firm perspective. Using recent household data, the report complements the report ‘more, and more productive, jobs for Nigeria: a profile of work and workers’ (World Bank 2015) and provides an overview of employment opportunities in Nigeria from ...

728 downloads, 1378 views

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Can Enhancing the Benefits of Formalization Induce Informal Firms to Become Formal? Experimental Evidence from Benin

Benhassine, Najy; McKenzie, David; Pouliquen, Victor; Santini, Massimiliano

Governments around the world have introduced reforms to attempt to make it easier for informal firms to formalize. However, most informal firms have not gone on to become formal, especially when tax registration is involved. A randomized experiment based around the ...

Governments around the world have introduced reforms to attempt to make it easier for informal firms to formalize. However, most informal firms have not gone on ...

Governments around the world have introduced reforms to attempt to make it easier for informal firms to formalize. However, most informal firms have not gone on to become formal, especially when tax registration is involved. A randomized experiment based around the introduction of the entreprenant legal status in Benin is used to ...

254 downloads, 419 views

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An Assessment of the Short Term Impact of the ECOWAS-CET and EU-EPA in Senegal

Marchat, Jean-Michel; von Uexkull, Erik

In recent years, there have been major changes in the trade policy landscape in West Africa that will affect Senegal. The Common External Tariff (CET) for (ECOWAS) and European Union-Economic Partnership Agreement (EU-EPA) have generated an intense debate among policy ...

In recent years, there have been major changes in the trade policy landscape in West Africa that will affect Senegal. The Common External Tariff (CET) for (ECOWA ...

In recent years, there have been major changes in the trade policy landscape in West Africa that will affect Senegal. The Common External Tariff (CET) for (ECOWAS) and European Union-Economic Partnership Agreement (EU-EPA) have generated an intense debate among policy makers, interest groups and the general population. The CET aim ...

269 downloads, 488 views

Doing Business 2015 : Going Beyond Efficiency

World Bank Group

Twelfth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 189 economies, Doing Business 2015 measures regulations affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity: • Starting a business; • Dealing with construction permits; • Getting electricity; • Registering property; • Getting credit; • Prote ...

Twelfth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 189 economies, Doing Business 2015 measures regulations affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity: • Starting a busin ...

Twelfth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 189 economies, Doing Business 2015 measures regulations affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity: • Starting a business; • Dealing with construction permits; • Getting electricity; • Registering property; • Getting credit; • Protecting minority investors; • Paying taxes; • Trading across borders; • Enforcing contrac ...

68485 downloads, 17475 views

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Enterprise Surveys : Niger Country Profile 2017

The Enterprise Surveys (ES) focus on many aspects of the business environment. These factors can be accommodating or constraining for firms and play an important role in whether an economy’s private sector will thrive or not. An accommodating business environment is o ...

The Enterprise Surveys (ES) focus on many aspects of the business environment. These factors can be accommodating or constraining for firms and play an important ...

The Enterprise Surveys (ES) focus on many aspects of the business environment. These factors can be accommodating or constraining for firms and play an important role in whether an economy’s private sector will thrive or not. An accommodating business environment is one that encourages firms to operate efficiently. Such conditions ...

72 downloads, 286 views

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