Explaining Africa's (Dis)advantage (Record no. 24972)
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| control field | The World Bank |
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| Standard number or code | 10.1596/1813-9450-6316 |
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| System control number | (The World Bank)6316 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Harrison, Ann E. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Explaining Africa's (Dis)advantage |
| Medium | [electronic resource] : |
| Remainder of title | The Curse of Party Monopoly / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Ann E. Harrison |
| 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 | 2013 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (63 p.) |
| 520 3# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Africa's economic performance has been widely viewed with pessimism. This paper uses firm-level data for 89 countries to examine formal firm performance. Without controls, manufacturing African firms do not perform much worse than firms in other regions. But they do have structural problems, exhibiting much lower export intensity and investment rates. Once the analysis controls for geography and the political and business environment, formal African firms robustly lead in sales growth, total factor productivity levels and productivity growth. Africa's conditional advantage is higher in low-tech than in high-tech manufacturing, and exists in manufacturing but not in services. While geography, infrastructure, and access to finance play an important role in explaining Africa's disadvantage in firm performance, the key factor is party monopoly. The longer a single political party remains in power, the lower are firm productivity levels, growth rates, and sales growth for manufacturing. In contrast, the business environment and firm characteristics (except for foreign investment) do not matter as much. The paper also finds evidence that the effects of the political and business environment are heterogeneous across sectors and firms of various levels of technology. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Business environment |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | E-Business |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Economic Theory & Research |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Emerging Markets |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Environmental Economics & Policies |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Finance and Financial Sector Development |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Geography |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Informality |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Infrastructure |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Institutions |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Labor Policies |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Manufacturing |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Party monopoly |
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| 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 | Services |
| 651 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Africa |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Harrison, Ann E. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Lin, Justin Yifu |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Xu, L. Colin |
| 776 18 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Main entry heading | Print version: |
| Display text | Harrison, Ann E. |
| Title | Explaining Africa's (Dis)advantage. |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2013 |
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| Uniform title | Policy research working papers. |
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| Uniform title | World Bank e-Library. |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-6316">http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-6316</a> |
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