What drives productivity in Tanzanian manufacturing firms: technology or institutions?
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Development; Productivity; Innovation; Institutions;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
- C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2006-11-18 (Africa)
- NEP-DEV-2006-11-18 (Development)
- NEP-EFF-2006-11-18 (Efficiency and Productivity)
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