This paper uses comprehensive and comparable firm-level manufacturing censuses from four Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries to examine the extent, costs, and nature of within-industry resource misallocation between heterogeneous production units. This paper finds evidence of severe misallocation in which resources are diverted away from high-productivity firms towards low-productivity ones, although the magnitude differs across countries. Estimated...
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2020/02/01
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Taxing the Good? : Distortions, Misallocation, and Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa
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inefficient allocation of resource