Firms’ Locational Choice and Infrastructure Development in Rwanda

Agglomeration economies are among the most important factors to increase firm productivity. However, there is little evidence supportive of this in Africa. By applying the conditional and nested logit models, this paper examines the relationship be...

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Main Authors:	Iimi, Atsushi, Humphrey, Richard Martin, Melibaeva, Sevara
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:	SANITATION BUSINESS ACTIVITIES PRODUCTION FOSSIL FUELS LAGS GLOBAL MARKETS GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE CONSUMER GOODS INFORMATION EXPORTS ELASTICITY INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT POLITICAL ECONOMY MANUFACTURERS AGGLOMERATION BENEFITS COMPANIES INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE VARIABLES FIRM SIZE TAX INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENTS OPEN ACCESS ECONOMIC ACTIVITY DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATIONS CHOICE DATA INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS INFRASTRUCTURE ACCESS ROAD SOCIAL SERVICE COSTS ROAD NETWORK TRANSPORT GROWTH PATH ECONOMETRICS PRODUCTIVITY EXTERNALITIES INDUSTRIALIZATION INCREASING RETURNS CRITERIA MARKETS FIRM PRIVATE INVESTMENT CONNECTIVITY WEB SERVICE PROVISION ENTERPRISES RAIL STATIONS SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT PHYSICAL DISTANCE FUELS INFRASTRUCTURE MANUFACTURING PHONE TRANSACTION INVESTORS RELIABILITY FIRMS WAGES POLICIES ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS RESULTS NESTED LOGIT MODEL VALUE MOBILE PHONE ROAD USE COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES COMPETITIVENESS FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT ELECTRICITY ELASTICITIES ACCESSIBILITY AGRICULTURE INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENTS MARKET GOOD TRANSPORT DIVERSIFICATION ROADS PORT FACILITIES RESULT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TRADE ICT GOODS INTERNATIONAL MARKET BUSINESSES BUSINESS INVESTMENT NETWORK AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES POSITIVE EXTERNALITIES BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT RAIL MARKET DEMAND POLICY SUPPORT PRIVATE INVESTORS ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES FOREIGN COMPANIES INVESTMENTS PORT ACCESS CUSTOMERS ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY TRANSPORT COSTS TECHNOLOGIES SEE COMMODITY INTERNATIONAL MARKETS LARGE ENTERPRISES SIZE OF FIRM PRICES USES DEVELOPMENT POLICY
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/06/24570548/firms’-locational-choice-infrastructure-development-rwanda http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22153

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http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22153

Firms’ Locational Choice and Infrastructure Development in Rwanda

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