How Can We Learn Whether Firm Policies are Working in Africa? (Record no. 24130)
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| control field | The World Bank |
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| Standard number or code | 10.1596/1813-9450-5632 |
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| System control number | (The World Bank)5632 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | McKenzie, David |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | How Can We Learn Whether Firm Policies are Working in Africa? |
| Medium | [electronic resource] : |
| Remainder of title | Challenges (and Solutions?) for Experiments and Structural Models / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | David McKenzie |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Washington, D.C., |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | The World Bank, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2011 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (26 p.) |
| 520 3# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Firm productivity is low in African countries, prompting governments to try a number of active policies to improve it. Yet despite the millions of dollars spent on these policies, we are far from a situation where we know whether many of them are yielding the desired payoffs. This paper establishes some basic facts about the number and heterogeneity of firms in different sub-Saharan African countries and discusses their implications for experimental and structural approaches towards trying to estimate firm policy impacts. It shows that the typical firm program such as a matching grant scheme or business training program involves only 100 to 300 firms, which are often very heterogeneous in terms of employment and sales levels. As a result, standard experimental designs will lack any power to detect reasonable sized treatment impacts, while structural models which assume common production technologies and few missing markets will be ill-suited to capture the key constraints firms face. Nevertheless, the author suggests a way forward which involves focusing on a more homogeneous sub-sample of firms and collecting a lot more data on them than is typically collected. |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Banks & Banking Reform |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | E-Business |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Finance and Private Sector Development |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Firm Productivity |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | ICT Policy and Strategies |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Impact Evaluation |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Microfinance |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Private Sector Development |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Randomized Experiments |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Small Scale Enterprise |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Structural Models |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | McKenzie, David |
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| Main entry heading | Print version: |
| Display text | McKenzie, David. |
| Title | How Can We Learn Whether Firm Policies are Working in Africa? |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2011 |
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| Uniform title | Policy research working papers. |
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| Uniform title | World Bank e-Library. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-5632">http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-5632</a> |
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