| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w18683 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 18683 |
| Explaining Africa's (Dis)advantage | |
| Ann E. Harrison; Justin Yifu Lin; L. Colin Xu | |
| 发表日期 | 2013-01-11 |
| 出版年 | 2013 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Africa's economic performance has been widely viewed with pessimism. In this paper, we use firm-level data for around 80 countries to examine formal firm performance. Without controls, manufacturing African firms perform significantly worse than firms in other regions. They have lower productivity levels and growth rates, export less, and have lower investment rates. Once we control for geography, political competition and the business environment, formal African firms lead in productivity levels and growth. Africa's conditional advantage is higher in low-tech than in high-tech manufacturing, and exists in manufacturing but not in services. The key factors explaining Africa's disadvantage at the firm level are lack of infrastructure, access to finance, and political competition. |
| 主题 | Development and Growth ; Development ; Growth and Productivity |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w18683 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/576354 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ann E. Harrison,Justin Yifu Lin,L. Colin Xu. Explaining Africa's (Dis)advantage. 2013. |
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| w18683.pdf（373KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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