Documents et rapports
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Africa - Incentives, exports and international competitiveness in sub-Saharan Africa : lessons from the apparel industry (anglais)
This country-level analysis of international trading patterns examines all sub-Saharan (SSA) countries for which trade data exist. Firm-level analysis is restricted to five countries: Kenya, Mauritius...
Type de document: Note d'orientation Numéro du rapport: 70181 Date du document: 9 mai 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Conway,Patrick J.,Shah,Manju Kedia
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What matters to African firms ? the relevance of perceptions data (anglais)
Can perceptions data help us understand investment climate constraints facing the private sector? Or do firms simply complain about everything? In this paper, the authors provide a picture of how firms'...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4446 Date du document: 1 décembre 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gelb,Alan Harold,Ramachandran,Vijaya,Shah,Manju Kedia,Turner,Ginger Leigh
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How does influence-peddling impact industrial competition? Evidence from enterprise surveys in Africa (anglais)
Prior research has emphasized that the high costs and risks arising from a poor investment climate-lack of clear property rights, macro-instability, the burden of regulation and taxation, poor infrastructure...
Type de document: Évaluation du climat de l’investissement (ICA) Numéro du rapport: 41972 Date du document: 1 septembre 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ramachandran,Vijaya,Shah,Manju Kedia,Tata,Gaiv Maneck
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Why are there so few black-owned firms in in Africa? Preliminary results from enterprise survey data (anglais)
Much of the growth in Sub-Saharan Africa in the past decade has come from extractive industries, rather than from private, entrepreneurial activity. Furthermore, non-extractive activity in the private...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 41993 Date du document: 1 janvier 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ramachandran,Vijaya,Shah,Manju Kedia
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Does the private sector care about AIDS? Evidence from investment climate surveys in East Africa (anglais)
This paper analyzes the determinants of firms' decision to provide HIV/AIDS prevention activities. Using data from 860 firms and 4,955 workers in Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya, it shows that larger firms...
Type de document: DSP, Privatisations et politiques industrielles Numéro du rapport: 37171 Date du document: 1 juin 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ramachandran,Vijaya,Shah,Manju Kedia,Turner,Ginger Leigh
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African small and medium enterprises, networks, and manufacturing performance (anglais)
This paper examines the role of private support institutions in determining small and medium enterprise (SME) growth and performance in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It finds that SMEs in SSA get around market...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3855 Date du document: 1 février 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Biggs,Tyler S.,Shah,Manju Kedia
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Summary of Madagascar's investment climate assessment (anglais)
Malagasy's private sector suffers from low productivity, particularly for non-EPZ firms, and a poor business environment which affects the sector as a whole. Export processing zone (EPZ) firms, however...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 33673 Date du document: 1 septembre 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cotton,Linda,Habyarimana,James Paul,Rossignol,Ivan,Shah,Manju Kedia
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Summary of Benin investment climate assessment (anglais)
Since 1994, Benin 's gross domestic product growth performance has been superior to that of Sub-Saharan Africa, averaging 4.9 percent. The main driver of this growth is an economywide increase in total...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 33684 Date du document: 1 septembre 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Affifi, Mouhssine,Alby,Philippe,Azam,Jean-Paul,Clarke George,Dia,Magueye,Marchat,Jean Michel Noel,Shah,Manju Kedia
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Madagascar - Évaluation du climat des investissements (français)
Le présent rapport porte sur l’évaluation du climat des investissements à Madagascar, et se fonde sur une enquête minutieuse réalisée auprès de 293 entreprises du secteur manufacturier à travers le pays...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 35196 Date du document: 16 juin 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cotton,Linda,Habyarimana,James Paul,Shah,Manju Kedia,Rossignol,Ivan
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Madagascar - Investment climate assessment (anglais)
This report provides an assessment of Madagascar's investment climate, based on a detailed survey of 293 enterprises in the manufacturing sector across Madagascar. Smaller surveys were conducted on tourism...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 35196 Date du document: 1 juin 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cotton,Linda,Habyarimana,James Paul,Shah,Manju Kedia,Rossignol,Ivan
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Enhancing the competitiveness of Kenya's manufacturing sector: the role of the investment climate (anglais)
The objectives of the ICA are to assess the current performance of formal manufacturing firms, to identify the key constraints on their growth and competitiveness, and to prioritize and assess policy priorities...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 33664 Date du document: 1 novembre 2004 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Blattman,Christopher,Cotton,Linda,Desai,Vyjayanti Tharmaratnam,Elbadawi,Ibrahim Ahmed,Habyarimana,James Paul,Marchat,Jean Michel Noel,Ramachandran,Vijaya,Shah,Manju Kedia,Ajayi, Kehnide,Kimuyu,Peter K.,Ngugi,Rose,Bigsten,Arne L,Soderbom,Mans Martin
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Competing in the global economy: an investment climate assessment for Uganda (anglais)
Uganda's economic growth since the late 1980s has resulted largely from restoring and rehabilitating the country's productive capacity. Going forward, growth will need to come increasingly from new investments...
Type de document: Évaluation du climat de l’investissement (ICA) Numéro du rapport: 33698 Date du document: 1 août 2004 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cotton,Linda,Habyarimana,James Paul,Leechor,Chad,Marchat,Jean Michel Noel,Paton,John,Ramachandran,Vijaya,Shah,Manju Kedia,Wong,Michael D.
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Mozambique industrial performance and investment climate 2003 (anglais)
For Mozambique to achieve its ambitious poverty reduction goals, it must maintain an annual growth rate of 8 percent over the next seven years. While this is within the range of recent performance, sustaining...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 33695 Date du document: 1 août 2003 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Harding, Alan,Leechor,Chad,Nasir,John L.,Ramachandran,Vijaya,Shah,Manju Kedia,Srivastava,Pradeep,Wagle,Dileep M.,De Barros,Gilberto
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Obstacles to the expansion of Eritrea's manufacturing sector (anglais)
The Eritrea Investment Climate Assessment (ICA) is based primarily on a survey conducted by the Regional Program on Enterprise Development (Africa Private Sector Unit) in Spring 2002. The team covered...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 33691 Date du document: 1 décembre 2002 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cotton,Linda,Haile,Tesfay,Shah,Manju Kedia,Marchat,Jean Michel Noel,Miovic,Peter,Paton,John,Ramachandran,Vijaya
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Results of the Nigeria firm survey (anglais)
The Nigerian economy has performed poorly since the late 1970s, resulting in stagnation and increasing poverty. Gross national product (GNP) per capita in 1999 was US$300, lower than the level attained...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 33739 Date du document: 1 novembre 2002 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Marchat,Jean Michel Noel,Nasir,John L.,Ramachandran,Vijaya,Shah,Manju Kedia,Tyler,Gerald D.,Zhao,Lan
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Esprit d’entreprise et performance des entreprises en Afrique subsaharienne (français)
Le développement du secteur privé en Afrique subsaharienne est d’une importance cruciale pour le taux global de croissance économique de la région. Les entreprises jouent un rôle important dans le secteur...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 54859 Date du document: 1 août 2000 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ramachandran,Vijaya,Shah,Manju Kedia
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Entrepreneurship and firm performance in Sub-Saharan Africa (anglais)
The development of the private sector in Sub-Saharan Africa is of crucial importance to the overall rate of economic growth of the region. Entrepreneurial firms have a prominent role in the private sector...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 54859 Date du document: 1 décembre 1999 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ramachandran,Vijaya,Shah,Manju Kedia
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Minority entrepreneurs and private sector growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (anglais)
This study focuses on the role of entrepreneurs in the private sector in sub-Saharan Africa. Using data from the Regional Program on Enterprise Development (RPED) and controlling for various factors, our...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 56985 Date du document: 1 juillet 1999 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Shah,Manju Kedia,Ramachandran,Vijaya
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Minority entrepreneurs and firm performance in Sub-Saharan Africa (anglais)
This study focuses on the role of entrepreneurs in the private sector in sub-Saharan Africa. Using data from the Regional Program on Enterprise Development (RPED) and controlling for various factors, our...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 33731 Date du document: 1 juin 1998 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ramachandran,Vijaya,Shah,Manju Kedia
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Trade reforms, incentives on ground and firm performance in Ghana (anglais)
Ghana was one of the first African countries to initiate an IMF/World Bank-sponsored structural adjustment program. In 1983, the Government of Ghana (GOG) introduced its Economic Recovery Program after...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 33735 Date du document: 1 juillet 1997 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Biggs,Tyler S.,Shah,Manju Kedia