Taxing the Good? Distortions, Misallocation, and Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Taxing the Good? Distortions, Misallocation, and Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa

This paper uses comprehensive and comparable firm-level manufacturing censuses from four Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries to examine the extent, costs, and nature of within-industry resource misallocation between heterogeneous production units. This paper finds evidence of severe misallocation in...

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Main Authors: Cirera, Xavier, Fattal-Jaef, Roberto, Maemir, Hibret
Format: Journal Article
Published: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2021
Subjects:
DISTORTIONS
MISALLOCATION
TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY
ENTERPRISE SURVEY
RESOURCE ALLOCATION
MANUFACTURING CENSUS
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36072

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