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The politics of affirmative action: ethnicity, equity, and state-business relations in MalaysiaMalaysia provides for interesting paradoxes. Poverty was reduced by adopting a horizontal perspective to policy planning through affirmative action targeting one ethnic group lagging economically in society...
Politics Enterprises Affirmative actionJournal Article
Informality and firm performance in MyanmarPart of Journal Special Issue What sustains informality
Firms Informality MyanmarReport
Business Practice Intervention Survey: Descriptive ReportMyanmar’s manufacturing sector is at the heart of the country’s commercial landscape...
Business Firm survey Manufacturing firmsWorking Paper
Good business practices improve productivity in Myanmar’s manufacturing sector: Evidence from two matched employer–employee surveysWe look into the relationship between business practices and enterprise productivity using panel data with matched employer and employee information from Myanmar...
Business Management ProductivityWorking Paper
Informality and firm performance in MyanmarUsing a novel panel survey of enterprises in Myanmar, we compare the performance of manufacturing firms by three different informality definitions. The first is binary, based on whether firms pay taxes...
Firms Informality MyanmarBook Chapter
Certification and business riskFrom the book: Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Vietnam
Risk SMEs BusinessWorking Paper
Doing business in a deals world: The doubly false premise of rules reformThe World Bank’s Doing Business reports have evoked an intense policy debate about whether countries should simplify regulatory rules in order to stimulate investment and growth, or make them more stringent in order to achieve public policy obj...
Business Rules Building State CapabilitiesJournal Article
Can Business Rights Alleviate Group-Based Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa?: Understanding the Limits to ReformPart of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality
Group-based inequality Minorities BusinessWorking Paper
Certification and business riskThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the scope for international private standards to play a role in reducing business risk. Business risk is measured as variability in revenue, customer base, informal payments, and temporary firm closure...
Risk SMEs BusinessWorking Paper
Total factor productivity in South African manufacturing firmsThe manufacturing sector is an important source of productivity growth and exports. Manufacturing firms are generally more productive than firms in the agricultural or services sectors and are an important source of job creation...
Business Manufacturing ProductivityWorking Paper
Markups and concentration in South African manufacturing sectors: An analysis with administrative dataThis paper uses newly available firm-level tax data to evaluate the market structure in South African manufacturing sectors in the period 2010–12...
Business Manufacturing industries PricingWorking Paper
Importing and firm performance: New evidence from South AfricaThis paper uses firm-level data from company tax declarations to analyse the complementary relationship between direct access to imported intermediate inputs and manufacturing firm performance in South Africa. There are three main findings...
Business Delivery of goods International tradeWorking Paper
The South African manufacturing exporter storyExisting South African work on firm-level data has been limited by access to large datasets that track firms over time...
Business Commerce ProductivityBook Chapter
Capitalism and African Business CulturesFrom the book: Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics, Vol. 1...
Business Capitalism EntrepreneurshipWorking Paper
Capitalism and African Business CulturesScholars and practitioners once commonly linked ‘African culture’ to a distinctive ‘African capitalism’, at odds with genuine capitalism and the demands of modern business...
Business Capitalism Entrepreneurship