Firm Survival and Change in Ghana, 2003-2013
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Keywords
Firm survival; Firm growth; Ghana; Firm size; Firm size distribution; Selection;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L25 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Performance
- O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- O14 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology
- O55 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Africa
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2015-04-11 (Africa)
- NEP-BEC-2015-04-11 (Business Economics)
- NEP-ENT-2015-04-11 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-SBM-2015-04-11 (Small Business Management)
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