The Cost of Doing Business in Africa : Evidence from the World Bank’s Investment Climate Data

The Cost of Doing Business in Africa : Evidence from the World Bank’s Investment Climate Data

This paper looks at firm-level evidence on the African business environment from surveys undertaken for Investment Climate Assessments by the World Bank in 2000-2004. These surveys confirm a pattern of generally low "factory-floor" productivity, and show that this is partly due to business...

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Main Author: World Bank
Format: PSD, Privatization and Industrial Policy
Language:English
en_US
Published: Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
ACCOUNT
ACCOUNTS
ADVERSE EFFECT
ANNUAL SALES
BENCHMARK
BUSINESS COMMUNITIES
BUSINESS COMMUNITY
BUSINESS INDICATORS
BUSINESS LOSSES
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
BUSINESS SERVICES
CAPITAL FLIGHT
COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE
COMPETITIVENESS
CONSTANT RETURNS TO SCALE
COST ACCOUNTING
COST OF CAPITAL
DEFLATORS
DEPRECIATION
DOMESTIC MARKET
ECONOMETRIC ANALYSES
ECONOMIC OUTCOMES
ECONOMIES OF SCALE
ELASTICITY
ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION
EXCHANGE RATES
EXPORTS
EXTERNALITIES
FINANCIAL SECTOR
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
FOREIGN INVESTMENT
GDP
GROSS VALUE
HIGH TRANSPORT
HUMAN CAPITAL
INCOME
INVESTMENT CLIMATE
INVESTMENT RATES
LATIN AMERICAN
MARKET COMPETITION
MARKET POTENTIAL
MARKET POWER
MARKET PRICES
MARKET SHARE
MARKETING
NATURAL RESOURCES
NET VALUE
POLITICAL ECONOMY
PRICE DIFFERENTIAL
PRICE LEVEL
PRICE LEVELS
PRODUCT MARKET
PRODUCTION FUNCTION
PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS
PRODUCTIVITY
PROFIT MARGIN
PROFIT MARGINS
PROFITABILITY
PURCHASING
PURCHASING POWER
RATES OF RETURN
REGULATORY BURDEN
ROAD
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
SALES
SECURITY COSTS
SMALL BUSINESS
SPREAD
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
TOTAL COSTS
TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY
TRANSPORT
TRANSPORT COSTS
TRANSPORT SYSTEMS
TRAVEL COSTS
TRUE
UNDERESTIMATES
VALUE ADDED
WAGES
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/11/7033876/cost-doing-business-africa-evidence-world-banks-investment-climate-data
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8769

Internet

http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/11/7033876/cost-doing-business-africa-evidence-world-banks-investment-climate-data
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8769

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