David Dollar, Mary Hallward‐Driemeier, Taye Mengistae
Drawing on recently completed firm‐level surveys in Bangladesh, China, India, and Pakistan, this article investigates the relationship between the investment climate and firm performance. These standardized surveys of large, random samples of firms in common sectors reveal that objective measures of...
Patricia Jones, Emmanuel K. K. Lartey, Taye Mengistae, Albert Zeufack
This paper investigates the sources of growth in manufacturing productivity in Cote D’Ivoire, Ethiopia and Tanzania in comparison with the case of Bangladesh. Based on the analysis of establishment census data since the mid-1990s, it finds that reallocation of market share between firms contributed ...
David Dollar, Mary Hallward‐Driemeier, Taye Mengistae
Drawing on recently completed firm-level \n surveys in Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Honduras, India, \n Nicaragua, Pakistan, and Peru, this paper investigates the \n relationship between investment climate and international \n integration. These standardized surveys of large, random...
Patricia Jones, Emmanuel K. K. Lartey, Taye Mengistae, Albert Zeufack
This paper investigates the sources of \n growth in manufacturing productivity in Cote D’Ivoire, \n Ethiopia and Tanzania in comparison with the case of \n Bangladesh. Based on the analysis of establishment census \n data since the mid-1990s, it finds that reallocation of \n mark...