High-Growth Entrepreneurial Firms in Africa: A Quantile Regression Approach

Micheline Goedhuys and Leo Sleuwaegen

No RP2009-11, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper studies the growth performance of a large set of entrepreneurial firms in ten manufacturing sectors of eleven Sub-Saharan African countries. The focus of the paper is on identifying those entrepreneurs' attributes and firm characteristics that tend to generate a significant number of high-growth firms in these countries. To this end, we use a quantile regression, which provides a more complete estimation of the growth distribution of firms conditional on different attributes.

Keywords: Business enterprises; Economic growth; Entrepreneurship; Industrial policy; Infrastructure (Economics); Manufacturing industries; Regression analysis; Technological innovations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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