Barriers to entry and returns to capital in informal activities : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

By Michael Grimm, Jens J. Krüger, J. Lay. 2011

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics

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1. Banque Africaine de Développement
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Citations in the corpus

• Firm Dynamics, Productivity Growth, and Job Creation in Developing Countries: The Role of Micro- and Small Enterprises (2015, unknown): “Udry and Anagol (2006), Göbel, Grimm, and Lay (2011), and Grimm, Kruger, and Lay (2011) reported similar results for micro-enterprises in Ghana, Peru, and other Sub-Saharan African countries, respectively.”
• Household Enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa : Why They Matter for Growth, Jobs, and Livelihoods (2012, result): “On this point, our study differs from those using the ILO definition (Grimm et al, 2011; ILO, 2011; Nguyen et al, 2011).”
• African Economic Outlook 2012 (2012, background): “…sector are high, often in the range of 60 to 70% annually, in particular at very low levels of capital (Banerjee and Duflo, 2004; McKenzie and Woodruff, 2006; De Mel et al., 2008; McKenzie and Woodruff, 2008; Kremer et al., 2010; Fafchamps et al., 2011; Göbel et al., 2011; Grimm et al., 2011a).”