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Why do Firms in Developing Countries Have Low Productivity?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

The productivity of firms in developing countries appears to be extremely low. Prior work, such as that summarized in James Tybout (2000) and World Bank (2004), has highlighted a set of issues around infrastructure, informality, regulations, trade policies, and human capital that reduce the...

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Eliciting probabilistic expectations with visual aids in developing countries : how sensitive are answers to variations in elicitation design?

Delavande, Adeline; Giné, Xavier; McKenzie, David J. - 2010

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Eliciting Probabilistic Expectations with Visual Aids in Developing Countries : How Sensitive are Answers to Variations in Elicitation Design?

Delavande, Adeline - 2017

Eliciting subjective probability distributions in developing countries is often based on visual aids such as beans to represent probabilities and intervals on a sheet of paper to represent the support. The authors conducted an experiment in India that tested the sensitivity of elicited...

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Business practices in small firms in developing countries

McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2016

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Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries

McKenzie, David J. - 2017

Management has a large effect on the productivity of large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms, where the majority of the labor force in developing countries works? This study developed 26 questions that measure business practices in marketing, stock-keeping,...

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Entry Regulation and Formalization of Microenterprises in Developing Countries

Bruhn, Miriam - 2017

The majority of microenterprises in most developing countries remain informal despite more than a decade of reforms aimed at making it easier and cheaper for them to formalize. This paper summarizes the evidence on the effects of entry reforms and related policy actions to promote firm...

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Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries

McKenzie, David J. - 2015

Management has a large effect on the productivity of large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms, where the majority of the labor force in developing countries works? We develop 26 questions that measure business practices in marketing, stock-keeping, record-keeping, and...

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Radio frequency (un)identification : results from a proof-of-concept trial of the use of RFID technology to measure microenterprise turnover in Sri Lanka

De Mel, Suresh; Herath, Dammika; McKenzie, David J.; … - In: Development engineering 1 (2016), pp. 4-11

physical stock counts and to survey responses. We have three main findings. First, current RFID-technology is more difficult to … from read efficiency being comprised by liquids, metal, and product stacking. Third, a comparison of survey responses and … physical stock-takes shows much higher accuracy for survey measures than RFID. As a result, we conclude that this technology is …

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Surveying migrant households : a comparison of census-based, snowball and intercept point surveys

McKenzie, David J. (contributor); … - 2007

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Surveying migrant households : a comparison of census-based, snowball, and intercept point surveys/ David J. McKenzie; Johan Mistiaen

McKenzie, David J. (contributor); … - 2007

survey methods in collecting data from Japanese-Brazilian families, many of whom send migrants to Japan. The three surveys …) A snowball survey using Nikkei community groups to select the seeds; and 3) An intercept point survey collected at …

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