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Corporate social responsibility in a competitive business environmentUsing a representative sample of more than 5,000 Vietnamese enterprises, we explore the firm-level productivity effects of corporate social responsibility (CSR)...
Business enterprises Corporate culture ManufacturingWorkshop
Micro, small, and medium enterprises in Viet NamThis workshop organized by UNU-WIDER brings together early-career researchers to present first drafts of their papers on the 2015 wave of the micro, small, and medium enterprises survey.
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Taxation, infrastructure, and firm performance in developing countriesThis paper investigates the relationship between taxation and firm performance in developing countries...
Business enterprises Economic growth Infrastructure (Economics)Working Paper
Corporate social responsibility in a competitive business environmentUsing a specially designed survey instrument in combination with a representative sample of Vietnamese enterprises, we explore firm-level efficiency effects of corporate social responsibility...
Business enterprises Corporate culture ManufacturingWorking Paper
State-business relations as drivers of economic performanceEffective state-business relations (SBRs) have been lacking in industrial policy thinking despite the strong theoretical case for SBRs...
Business enterprises Economic growth Industrial policyDatabase
Viet Nam SME databaseThe Viet Nam Small and Medium Enterprises data track over 2500 enterprises from nine provinces over time.
Economic surveys Small business Business enterprisesBlog
From the Editor's Desk (September-October 2015)
UNU-WIDER had a busy September. We celebrated our 30 th birthday with some 600 people at our three-day conference on ‘Mapping the Future of Development Economics’ here in Helsinki. It was a great occasion...
Agriculture Business enterprises Capital investmentsBlog
Economic Lessons from Recent Research for Achieving SDG8 This article is part of UNU’s “ 17 Days, 17 Goals ” series, featuring research and commentary in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit, 25-27 September 2015 in New York City...
Business enterprises Capital investments Economic assistance and foreign aidWorking Paper
The Political Economy of Industrial Development in Vietnam: Impact of State-Business Relationship on Industrial Performance, 1986-2012Vietnam’s industrial development since doi moi is a success, but only a partial one. This paper provides a political economy account of Vietnam’s industrial growth since 1986...
Business enterprises Corporate law Economic growthWorking Paper
The Performance of the Manufacturing Sector in Tanzania: Challenges and the Way ForwardTanzania’s industrial sector has evolved through various stages since independence in 1961, from nascent and undiversified to state-led import substitution industrialization, and subsequently to de-industrialization under the structural adjustm...
Business enterprises Economic development International tradeWorking Paper
How Many Manufacturing Firms are there in Mozambique?This paper addresses the issue of poor data on Mozambican manufacturing firms. A new dataset (the merged manufacturing database) is merged from provincial industrial databases from each of Mozambique’s 11 provinces...
Business enterprises Economic development Manufacturing industriesWorking Paper
Exporting and Productivity: The Role of Ownership and Innovation in the Case of VietnamIn this paper, we investigate the relationship between exporting and productivity in the case of Vietnam using an extensive firm level panel dataset for the period 2005-11...
Business enterprises Commerce Organizational behaviorWorking Paper
Learning by Exporting: The Case of Mozambican ManufacturingIn this paper, we aim to analyse the learning by exporting hypothesis in the Mozambican context...
Business enterprises Economic development MicroeconomicsResearch Brief
Job Creation and Small and Medium Size EnterprisesBusiness enterprises Economic assistance and foreign aid Industrial policy
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Is Small Beautiful? Small Enterprise, Aid and Employment in AfricaAid providers frequently link supporting small firms to job creation. Small firms create about half of new jobs in Africa, but they also have higher failure rates. Ignoring firm exit exaggerates net employment growth...
Business enterprises Economic assistance and foreign aid Industrial policyJournal Article
Benefits of Formalization: Evidence from Vietnamese Manufacturing SMEsBased on unique panel data consisting of both formal and informal firms, this paper uses a matched double difference approach to examine the relationship between legal status and firm level outcomes in micro, small and medium manufacturing enterprise...
Business enterprises Entrepreneurship Informal sector