The Effects of Pollution and Business Environment on Firm Productivity in Africa

This paper explores the links between city competitiveness and air pollution and the business environment. Because competitive cities not only attract more productive firms, but also facilitate their business, the paper look at firm performance as...

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Main Authors:	Soppelsa, Maria E., Lozano-Gracia, Nancy, Xu, L. Colin
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
Subjects:	CITY COMPETIVENESS AIR POLLUTION BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT FIRM PRODUCTIVITY AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES LABOR PRODUCTIVITY
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/850371556630917519/The-Effects-of-Pollution-and-Business-Environment-on-Firm-Productivity-in-Africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31599

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spelling	okr-10986-315992022-09-19T12:16:43Z The Effects of Pollution and Business Environment on Firm Productivity in Africa Soppelsa, Maria E. Lozano-Gracia, Nancy Xu, L. Colin CITY COMPETIVENESS AIR POLLUTION BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT FIRM PRODUCTIVITY AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES LABOR PRODUCTIVITY This paper explores the links between city competitiveness and air pollution and the business environment. Because competitive cities not only attract more productive firms, but also facilitate their business, the paper look at firm performance as a proxy for city competitiveness. It focuses on African firms, because this region is developing fast and experiencing increasing pollution levels and the effects of agglomeration economies. The analysis finds two interesting results. First, the negative association between air pollution and firm performance can be seen at lower than expected levels of pollution. Second, the effects of capacity agglomeration on labor productivity growth are stronger compared to other regions. These findings suggest that cities in this region should address pollution issues soon, as they continue to grow fast and pollution levels are becoming an increasing concern. 2019-05-02T17:28:37Z 2019-05-02T17:28:37Z 2019-04 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/850371556630917519/The-Effects-of-Pollution-and-Business-Environment-on-Firm-Productivity-in-Africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31599 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8834 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Sub-Saharan Africa
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topic	CITY COMPETIVENESS AIR POLLUTION BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT FIRM PRODUCTIVITY AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES LABOR PRODUCTIVITY
spellingShingle	CITY COMPETIVENESS AIR POLLUTION BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT FIRM PRODUCTIVITY AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES LABOR PRODUCTIVITY Soppelsa, Maria E. Lozano-Gracia, Nancy Xu, L. Colin The Effects of Pollution and Business Environment on Firm Productivity in Africa
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relation	Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8834
description	This paper explores the links between city competitiveness and air pollution and the business environment. Because competitive cities not only attract more productive firms, but also facilitate their business, the paper look at firm performance as a proxy for city competitiveness. It focuses on African firms, because this region is developing fast and experiencing increasing pollution levels and the effects of agglomeration economies. The analysis finds two interesting results. First, the negative association between air pollution and firm performance can be seen at lower than expected levels of pollution. Second, the effects of capacity agglomeration on labor productivity growth are stronger compared to other regions. These findings suggest that cities in this region should address pollution issues soon, as they continue to grow fast and pollution levels are becoming an increasing concern.
format	Working Paper
author	Soppelsa, Maria E. Lozano-Gracia, Nancy Xu, L. Colin
author_facet	Soppelsa, Maria E. Lozano-Gracia, Nancy Xu, L. Colin
author_sort	Soppelsa, Maria E.
title	The Effects of Pollution and Business Environment on Firm Productivity in Africa
title_short	The Effects of Pollution and Business Environment on Firm Productivity in Africa
title_full	The Effects of Pollution and Business Environment on Firm Productivity in Africa
title_fullStr	The Effects of Pollution and Business Environment on Firm Productivity in Africa
title_full_unstemmed	The Effects of Pollution and Business Environment on Firm Productivity in Africa
title_sort	effects of pollution and business environment on firm productivity in africa
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2019
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/850371556630917519/The-Effects-of-Pollution-and-Business-Environment-on-Firm-Productivity-in-Africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31599
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