Taxing the Good? Distortions, Misallocation, and Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa
This paper uses comprehensive and comparable firm-level manufacturing census data from four Sub-Saharan African countries to examine the extent, costs, and nature of within-industry resource misallocation across heterogeneous firms. The paper finds...
Main Authors: | Cirera, Xavier, Fattal Jaef, Roberto N., Maemir, Hibret B. |
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Format: | Working Paper |
Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/492891485178180375/Taxing-the-good-distortions-misallocation-and-productivity-in-Sub-Saharan-Africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25958 |
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