Ce rapport passe en revue les travaux sur la competitivite, la productivite et l. efficacite des
secteurs agricole et agroalimentaire. Cette revue clarifie les concepts et la terminologie …

Since the seminal contribution of N. Gregory Mankiw, David Romer and David N. Weil in
1992 the growth empirics literature has used increasingly sophisticated methods to select …

Despite the widely recognised importance of the manufacturing industry for successful
development few studies investigate this sector in cross-country analysis. We fill this gap in …

Working with five Ethiopian firms, we randomized applicants to an industrial job offer, an
“entrepreneurship” program of $300 plus business training, or control status. Industrial jobs …

In a sample of manufacturing firms from nine sub-Saharan African countries, large firms are
found to be extremely important. As in more developed economies, they achieve higher …

We use firm-level panel data for the manufacturing sector in four African countries to
investigate whether exporting impacts on efficiency, and whether efficient firms self-select …

Informality is a salient feature of most developing economies. Two important concerns arise
from informality. First, informal firms tend to be less productive than formal firms. Second, the …

This paper compares the technical efficiency of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
with that of large firms and studies the factors influencing technical efficiency for Taiwan's …

In the early 1990s the World Bank launched the Regional Program on Enterprise
Development (rped) in several African countries, a key component of which was to collect …

This article positions itself among the very rare microeconomic analyses on the
consequences of civil war. Up to now, most analyses on this topic are based on household …