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With their large, often unparalleled, retail outreach to otherwise underserved areas and populations, Cooperative …
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This paper explores the extent to which formal, regulated financial institutions such as banks have been able to partner with "correspondents"- commercial entities whose primary objective and business is other than the provision of financial services. The paper illustrates the case of Brazil,...
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-communist economies privatization to foreign owners results in a rapid improvement in performance of firms, while performance effects of … performance. Concentrated private ownership has a stronger positive effect on performance than dispersed ownership in the post … tunneling and in some countries new large shareholders artificially decreased performance. The important policy implication is …
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"This paper uses firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys to study the process …
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"It is so widely recognized that innovation is a key driver of economic growth that it is cliche to say so. This article studies product innovation by firms with data from 68 countries, covering more than 25,000 firms in eight manufacturing sectors. The author assesses the predictions of...
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first propose three measures of firms' productive performance: labor productivity, total factor productivity, and technical … the investment climate matters for firms' productive performance. This is true (depending on the industry) for the quality …
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"Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation...
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regulation variables have been shown to significantly impact firm performance. Section 1 of this paper outlines the theoretical …
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"Using 2005 firm level data for 26 countries in Eastern and Central Europe, this paper estimates performance gaps …
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