Firms' productive performance and the investment climate in developing economies : an application to MENA manufacturing (English)

Drawing on the World Bank Investment Climate Assessment surveys, this paper investigates the relationship between firm-level technical efficiency and the investment climate for 22 developing economies and eight manufacturing industries. The authors first propose three measures of firms' productive performance: labor productivity, total factor productivity, and technical efficiency. They show that, on average, enterprises in the Middle East and North...

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Kinda,Tidiane;

Plane,Patrick;

Veganzones-Varoudakis, Marie-Ange;
Document Date
2009/03/01
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS4869
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Middle East and North Africa,
Region
Middle East and North Africa,
Disclosure Date
2010/07/01
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Firms' productive performance and the investment climate in developing economies : an application to MENA manufacturing
Keywords
investment climate

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Kinda,Tidiane; Plane,Patrick; Veganzones-Varoudakis, Marie-Ange.

Firms' productive performance and the investment climate in developing economies : an application to MENA manufacturing (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 4869 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/754131468299192804

Firms' productive performance and the investment climate in developing economies : an application to MENA manufacturing (English)

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