This paper uses data on private firms in 24 developing countries to show that, during the COVID-19 pandemic, firms with greater obstacles in accessing an educated workforce have lower performance than other firms. The findings are robust to the comprehensive inclusion of relevant control...

Microcredit has expanded rapidly in recent years but its effect at the household level is still controversial. This paper uses a unique dataset collected from 69 villages in Bangladesh during the period 2006-2007 to estimates the effect of participation in microcredit programs on household...

Purpose The aim of this paper is to document the impact of competition on managerial practices adopted by small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach The paper uses the data provided by the World Bank’s Enterprise Surveys to test the arguments presented in this paper. The...

In this paper a modified function for wavelet-based denoising scheme is proposed and tested for speaker independent noisy Hindi digits recognition using Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) features. Recognition performance achieved by using the proposed scheme is found to be superior to...