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[null,"1.","Record Nr.",null,"UNINA9910783637303321"]
[null,null,"Autore",null,"Mazumdar Dipak <1932, >"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"The African manufacturing firm : an analysis based on firm surveys in seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa / / Dipak Mazumdar and Ata Mazaheri"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-134-42571-6"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-280-23933-6"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9786610239337"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0-203-98778-0"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (472 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Routledge studies in development economics ; ; 31"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"338.4/767/0967"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Manufacturing industries - Africa, Sub-Saharan"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Corporations - Africa, Sub-Saharan"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Industrial productivity - Africa, Sub-Saharan"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Industrial surveys - Africa, Sub-Saharan"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-443) and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; 1 The Economies of the Survey Countries in Africa; 2 Size Distribution of Firms in African Manufacturing and Market Structure; 3 The Production Function in African Manufacturing: Relative Productivity of Small and Large Firms; 4 Entrepreneurial Firms in Africa; 5 Capital Markets - Finance; 6 Labor as a Factor of Production; 7 The Impact of Regulations and Infrastructure Relative to Other Problems Facing the Firm; 8 Contract Flexibility and Enforcement; 9 The Analysis of Capacity Utilization"]
[{"$nulls":4},"10 Technical Efficiency of Manufacturing Firms in Sub-Saharan Africa11 Investment; 12 The Growth of Firms; 13 African Competitiveness in World Markets; 14 Characteristics and Performance of Export Oriented Firms: Evidence from RPED Surveys; 15 Conclusions; Bibliography; Index"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","The African manufacturing sector continues to face many problems as it struggles to progress from its presently underdeveloped state. If the countries that make up Africa are ever to raise the living standards of the vast majority of its population to a more acceptable level, then the economic growth that would result from an enlarged and improved "]
[{"$nulls":4},"manufacturing sector may hold an important key.The book provides a useful source of greater understanding of African manufacturing firms and the perplexing lack of widespread industrial growth during the post-colonial decades. The comprehensive c"]