. But government subsidies to private firms can be controversial. A key question is that of additionality: do these programs …

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 failures and lack of formal …-based, business networks. There are important links between these informal governance institutions and SME performance. Networks raise …

. This paper examines the roles of industrial clusters, managerial capacities, and entrepreneurship in improving productivity … capacities are a major determinant of firms' employment sizes and productivity growth, and that it is high innovative capacities …

Management has a large effect on the productivity of large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms … explains as much of the variation in outcomes ? sales, profits, and labor productivity and total factor productivity ? in …

Governments are resource and bandwidth constrained, and hence need to prioritize productivity-enhancing policies. To do …, coordination ability, and defending against capture is critical to successful implementation of productivity policies and should be …

The role of innovation in improving productivity might vary according to a country's relative position in technology … innovation on output via productivity with representative manufacturing firms in Tunisia from 1997 to 2007. It finds that "buying …" has a positive effect on productivity whereas "creating" does not, which might imply that Tunisian firms do not invest …

dimensions coincided with significant growth in aggregate labor productivity. However, in and of itself, the same reallocation … could only have held back, rather than aid, the observed productivity gains. This was because labor was more productive … productivity of the reallocation of employment between the two sectors could only have been reinforced by the impacts on the same …