Mobile technologies and firm formalization: Evidence from Uganda
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Mobile technologies; Tax; Administrative data; Difference-in-differences; Firm performance; Uganda;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2023-08-28 (Business Economics)
- NEP-IUE-2023-08-28 (Informal and Underground Economics)
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