Explaining Africa’s (Dis)advantage : The Curse of Party Monopoly

Explaining Africa’s (Dis)advantage : The Curse of Party Monopoly

Africa's economic performance has been widely viewed with pessimism. This paper uses firm-level data for 89 countries to examine formal firm performance. Without controls, manufacturing African firms do not perform much worse than firms in oth...

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Main Authors:	Harrison, Ann E., Lin, Justin Yifu, Xu, L. Colin
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:	ACCOUNTING ADVERSE EFFECT ADVERSE EFFECTS AGENCY PROBLEMS AUTOMOBILE BANK LOANS BARRIER BENCHMARK BENCHMARKING BINDING CONSTRAINTS BUSINESS CLIMATE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS BUSINESS REGULATION BUSINESSES CAPITAL ALLOCATION CAPITAL INTENSITY CAPITAL STOCK COLLECTIVE ACTION COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS COMPETITIVENESS CONTRACT ENFORCEMENT CONVENTIONAL INSTRUMENTS CUSTOM DEMOCRACY DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING ECONOMIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIRECT FOREIGN INVESTMENT DIVISION OF LABOR DOMESTIC COMPETITION DOMESTIC MARKET ECONOMETRICS ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC OUTCOMES ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ECONOMIC POLICIES ECONOMIC RESEARCH ECONOMICS EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT ELECTRICITY EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS EMPIRICAL STUDIES EMPLOYMENT GROWTH ENDOGENOUS VARIABLES ENTERPRISE SURVEY ENTERPRISE SURVEYS ENVIRONMENTS EQUIPMENT EXPORTS EXPOSURE EXTERNAL FINANCE FINANCIAL CRISIS FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT FIRM GROWTH FIRM PERFORMANCE FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FOREIGN FIRMS FOREIGN INVESTMENT FOREIGN OWNERSHIP GDP GDP PER CAPITA GLOBAL MARKETS GLOBALIZATION GROWTH POTENTIAL GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES IMPUTATION INCOME INCOME GROUP INCOME LEVELS INDUSTRIALIZATION INEFFICIENCY INFLATION RATE INFORMATION SHARING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION INPUT USE INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION INTERNATIONAL MARKET INTERNATIONAL TRADE INVESTMENT CLIMATE JOB CREATION LABOR COSTS LABOR MARKET LABOR MARKET FLEXIBILITY LABOR MARKETS LABOR PRODUCTIVITY LABOR REGULATIONS LEGAL CONSTRAINTS LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE MACROECONOMIC POLICIES MANAGERIAL DISCRETION MANUFACTURING MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES MARKET COMPETITION MARKET REGULATION MARKET REGULATIONS MATERIAL MENU MINIMUM WAGES MONITORING MECHANISM MONOPOLY NATURAL RESOURCE NATURAL RESOURCES NETWORK DATA NETWORKS OPEN ACCESS PERFORMANCE INDICATOR PERFORMANCE MEASURE PERFORMANCE MEASURES POLICY MAKERS POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS POLITICAL POWER POSITIVE EFFECTS PRIVATE INVESTMENT PRIVATE SECTOR PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT PRIVATIZATION PRODUCERS PRODUCTION FUNCTION PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH PROPERTY RIGHTS REGIONAL TRADE REGULATORS RENTS RESULT RESULTS RETAIL STORES RISK SHARING SAFETY SALES GROWTH SCALE EFFECTS SEVERANCE PAY STRUCTURAL CHANGE SUSTAINABLE GROWTH TAX TAX RATE TAXATION TELECOM TELECOMMUNICATION TELECOMMUNICATIONS TELEPHONE TIME PERIOD TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY TRADE BLOCS TRADE FINANCE UNEMPLOYMENT URBANIZATION USES VALUE ADDED WAGE STRUCTURE WAGES WEB WORLD DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS WORLD ECONOMY
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/01/17172552/explaining-africas-disadvantage-curse-party-monopoly http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12177

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/01/17172552/explaining-africas-disadvantage-curse-party-monopoly
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12177