How Can We Learn Whether Firm Policies Are Working in Africa? Challenges (and Solutions?) for Experiments and Structural Models

Firm productivity is low in African countries, prompting governments to try a number of active policies to improve it. Yet despite the millions of dollars spent on these policies, we are far from a situation where we know whether many of them are y...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McKenzie, David
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
Published: 2012
Subjects:
SME
WEB
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3398