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- Bigsten, Arne, 1947, et al.
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Aid and Reform in Tanzania
- 2001
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Ingår i: Aid and Reform in Africa. Ed by Shanta Devarajan, David Dollar, Torgny Holmgren. - Washington, D.C., USA : The World Bank. - 0821346695 ; , s. 287-360
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Bigsten, Arne, 1947
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Can Africa Catch Up?
- 2002
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Ingår i: World Economics. ; 3(2)
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- Bigsten, Arne, 1947
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Can Japan Make a Comeback?
- 2004
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Since the beginning of the 1990s Japan has experienced economic stagnation. This paper discusses its causes and the prospects for recovery. It considers both the macroeconomic problems and the viability of the Japanese economic model itself. The potential roles of fiscal, monetary, exchange rate, and structural policies are discussed.
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- Bigsten, Arne, 1947
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Credit Constraints in Manufacturing Enterprises in Africa
- 2003
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Ingår i: Journal of African Economies. ; 12(1), s. 12-33
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We investigate the question whether firms in Africa's manufacturing sector are credit constrained. The fact that few firms obtain credit is not sufficient to prove constraints, since certain firms may not have a demand for credit while others may be refused credit as part of profit maximising behaviour by banks. To investigate this question, we use direct evidence on whether firms had a demand of credit and whether their demand was satisfied in the formal credit market, based on panel data on firms in the manufacturing sector from six African countries. Of those firms with a demand for credit, only a quarter obtained a formal sector loan. Our analysis suggests that while banks allocate credit on the basis of expected profits, micro or small firms are much less likely to get a loan than large firms. We also find that outstanding debt is positively related with obtaining further lending. The role of outstanding debt is likely to be a reflection of inefficiency in credit markets, while the fact that size matters is consistent with a bias as well, although we cannot totally exclude that they reflect transactions costs on the part of banks. We present an analysis showing how much more profitable small firm must be to obtain a loan than large firms.
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- Bigsten, Arne, 1947, et al.
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Debt Relief and Growth: A Study of Zambia and Tanzania
- 2004
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Ingår i: Debt Relief for Poor Countries. - Basingstoke and New York : Palgrave MacMillan in association with UNU-WIDER. - 1403934827 ; Ch II:9, s. 181-205
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- Bigsten, Arne, 1947, et al.
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Do African Manufacturing Firms Learn from Exporting?
- 2002
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this paper, we use firm-level panel data for the manufacturing sector in four African countries to estimate the effect of exporting on efficiency. Estimating simultaneously a production function and an export regression that control for unobserved firm effects, we find both significant efficiency gains from exporting, supporting the learning-by-exporting hypothesis, and evidence for self-selection of more efficient firms into exporting. The evidence of learning-by-exporting suggests that Africa has much to gain from orientating its manufacturing sector towards exporting.
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- Bigsten, Arne, 1947, et al.
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Dynamics of Poverty in Ethiopia
- 2004
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper addresses issues related to the dynamics of income poverty using unique household panel data for urban and rural areas of Ethiopia covering the period 1994-97. The percentage of households that remained in poverty was twice as large in urban areas as in rural areas. This suggests that income variability is a serious problem in rural areas, while the persistence is a key feature of urban poverty. The paper also discusses household characteristics that are correlated with the incidence of chronic poverty as well as vulnerability to poverty. A strategy that promotes consumption smoothing through say access to credit can work well in rural areas, while income or employment generation are required for poverty alleviation in urban areas.
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- Bigsten, Arne, 1947, et al.
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Efficiency, Technical Progress, and Best Practice in Chinese State Enterprises (1980-1994)
- 2000
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In spite of rapid economic growth and swift structural change during the last two decades, China's industrial reform is far from complete, especially with regard to state enterprises (SOEs). Although troubled with huge financial losses, heavy debt, and substantial over-staffing, SOEs will continue to play a crucial part in the government policy to maintain social stability and economic growth in China. This study, based on samples of about 700 state enterprises during 1980-94, investigates productivity performance of the SOEs using Data Envelopment Analysis and Malmquist Index. Our empirical results show that average technical efficiency had been low among the sample SOEs. Considerable productivity growth was found, but it was mainly accomplished through technical progress rather than efficiency improvement. Regression analyses indicate that wage incentives and education had positive impacts on productivity growth, while large scale was an important determinant of whether an SOE was applying best practice technology. It is also shown that large SOEs were more likely to generate technical progress. These findings are consistent with the industrial structural adjustment program initiated by the government in 1994, which has focused on improving productive efficiency via redundancies and technology upgrading, and on building its best SOEs into conglomerates
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