Reforms, market dynamics and productivitry in developing countries / Khalid Sekkat -- Exit-entry dynamics : case of the manufacturing sector in Jordan / Nesreen Barakat and Ibrahim Saif -- Industrial dynamics and productivity in Morocco : Lahcen Achy and Khalid Sekkat -- Entry, exit, and...

To what extent do financial constraints act as conditioning factors on firm productivity? Is this impact different across firm size classes and across sectors and in what way is it different? We explore these issues for Morocco. We use firm level data, taken from two surveys of the World Bank...

Recent empirical evidence on the impact of reforms in a number of developing countries shows that such persistence of inefficiency and market power is specific to MENA. Showcasing in-depth analyses from Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, and Turkey (with comparative data from Asia and Latin America),...