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Myanmar Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Survey 2017: Descriptive ReportMyanmar’s transition to a market-based economy is accompanied by rapid development of the private manufacturing sector, which has large potential for improving economic growth...
SMEs Manufacturing Informal sectorPolicy seminar
Enterprise development: How are Mozambican manufacturing firms doing? Findings from 2017On 23 April 2018, the Inclusive Growth in Mozambique project hosted a public forum to share the results of its report on the business landscape for Mozambican manufacturing firms. The event sheds light on the current challenges faced by micro-,...
Journal Article
Does managerial personality matter?: Evidence from firms in VietnamUsing novel data from micro, small and medium firms in Vietnam, we estimate the relationship between behavioural and personality traits of owners/managers – risk attitudes, locus of control, and innovativeness – and firm-level decisions...
Entrepreneurship SMEs Firm performanceWorking Paper
Does managerial personality matter?: Evidence from firms in VietnamUsing novel data from micro, small, and medium firms in Vietnam, we estimate the relationship between behavioural and personality traits of owners/managers—risk attitudes, locus of control, and innovativeness—and firm-level decisions...
Entrepreneurship SMEs Firm performanceWorking Paper
Differentials in market constraints and value addition among micro, small, and medium enterprises in VietnamThis paper analyses the differentials of productive values in Vietnamese micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and how market constraints have hindered their performance...
SMEs Industrial policy Value additionNews
Evidence based policy making in Myanmar – New four-year programme in collaboration with the Central Statistical Organization launchedDirector-General of the Central Statistical Organization Dr Wah Wah Maung, Ambassador of Denmark to Myanmar H.E. Peter Lysholt Hansen, and UNU-WIDER Director Finn Tarp at the project launch event on 17 March 2017. UNU-WIDER and the Central...
Myanmar SMEsWorking Paper
The missing middle: Growing and strengthening Vietnam’s micro, small, and medium-sized enterprisesWe study the exporting and subcontracting decisions, mark-ups, market concentration, and growth of a panel of Vietnamese private micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises. Our main findings are as follows...
Viet Nam Exporting SubcontractingProject
Towards inclusive development in Myanmar
Theme: Transformation
Inclusive growth Economic reform Industrial policyWorking Paper
Private standards and labour productivity in the food sector in VietnamA rising number of firms from developing countries have adopted voluntary private standards in the last decade...
Labour productivity SMEs Food industry and tradeWorking Paper
Gender matters: Private sector training in Vietnamese SMEsIn many developing countries the skill base is a cause of concern with respect to international competition. Firm-provided training is generally seen as an important tool for bridging the skills gap between labour force and private sector demand...
Training Wages SMEsSeminar
Characteristics of the Vietnamese business environment: evidence from a SME Survey in 2015
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Report launch of 'Characteristics of the Vietnamese business environment: Evidence from a small and medium enterprise survey in 2011'A report describing the main findings and key policy recommendations arising from a new survey of Vietnamese Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) was launched at Ha Noi’s Central Institute of Economic Management on 21 November 2012. The results...
