Documents et rapports
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Deconstructing the Missing Middle : Informality and Growth of Firms in Sub-Saharan Africa (anglais)
This paper characterizes the firm size distribution by exploiting establishment-level censuses covering both formal and informal firms in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper finds a "missing middle" in the employment-based...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10233 Date du document: 16 novembre 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Abreha,Kaleb Girma,Cirera,Xavier,Davies,Elwyn Adriaan Robin,Fattal Jaef,Roberto N.,Maemir,Hibret Belete
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Deconstructing the Missing Middle : Informality and Growth of Firms in Sub-Saharan Africa (anglais)
This paper uses a novel firm-level dataset and finds a missing middle in the employment based firm size distribution in four sub-Saharan African countries. This missing middle hinges on the inclusion of...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 180518 Date du document: 3 octobre 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Abreha,Kaleb Girma,Cirera,Xavier,Davies,Elwyn Adriaan Robin,Fattal Jaef,Roberto N.,Maemir,Hibret Belete
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Ethiopia - Country Economic Memorandum : Ethiopia’s Great Transition - The Next Mile : Overview (anglais)
Ethiopia’s rapid growth over the past two decades has resulted in a surge in income per capita levels, with the country approaching fast the middle-income milestone. Over the past decade, fast growth was...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: AUS0002952 Date du document: 19 juin 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mcsharry,Patrick E.,Wacker,Konstantin M.,Schmidt,Gabriela,Nyawo,Mike,Mulugeta,Samuel,Kebede,Frehiwot Worku,Sanchez Martin,Miguel Eduardo,Pimhidzai,Obert,Beyene,Berhe Mekonnen,Van Dijk,Justin Tycho,Maemir,Hibret Belete,Abreha,Kaleb Girma,Shepherd,Benjamin A.
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COVID-19 and African Firms : Impact and Coping Strategies (anglais)
Drawing on a representative survey of firms in 38 countries, eight of which are in Sub-Saharan Africa, this paper documents the impact of COVID-19 and firms’ coping strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa, benchmarking...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9642 Date du document: 26 avril 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Aga,Gemechu A.,Maemir,Hibret Belete
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Measuring Total Factor Productivity Using the Enterprise Surveys : A Methodological Note (anglais)
Total factor productivity is a key element of economic growth and an important performance metric for policy makers. This note describes the methodology for measuring firm-level total factor productivity...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9491 Date du document: 8 décembre 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Francis,David C.,Karalashvili,Nona,Maemir,Hibret Belete,Rodriguez Meza,Jorge Luis
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Taxing the Good? : Distortions, Misallocation, and Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa (anglais)
This paper uses comprehensive and comparable firm-level manufacturing censuses from four Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries to examine the extent, costs, and nature of within-industry resource misallocation...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 160949 Date du document: 1 février 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cirera,Xavier,Fattal Jaef,Roberto N.,Maemir,Hibret Belete
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Are Trade Preferences a Panacea ? The Export Impact of the African Growth (anglais)
Does “infant industry” preferential access durably boost exports? Using country-product-year data for 1992–2017 and triple-differences regressions, we show that the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA)...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8753 Date du document: 19 février 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fernandes,Ana Margarida,Forero,Alejandro,Maemir,Hibret Belete,Mattoo,Aaditya
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Contractual Frictions and the Margins of Trade (anglais)
A growing body of work has shown that the quality of national institutions that enforce written contracts plays an important role in shaping a country's comparative advantage. Using highly disaggregated...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8631 Date du document: 30 octobre 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Azomahou,Theophile Thomas,Maemir,Hibret Belete,Wako,Hassen A.
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Taxing the good ? distortions, misallocation, and productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7949 Date du document: 23 janvier 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cirera,Xavier,Fattal Jaef,Roberto N.,Maemir,Hibret Belete