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- Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Executive Summary -- 12 Empirical Highlights -- Abbreviations -- Introduction Firms do not all serve the same purpose -- Firms do not all serve the same purpose -- How large is large? -- Note -- References -- 1. Large firms make distinct contributions to development -- Firm size is associated with productivity -- Size is a proxy for a package of characteristics and strategies -- Scale is associated with different returns to workers -- Macroeconomic outcomes are influenced by large-firm activity -- Notes -- References --
- 2. The "missing top" -- Lower-income countries tend to have smaller firms -- The gap is in the larger among large firms -- Is there a "missing top"? -- Notes -- References -- 3. Large-firm creation: Origins and growth paths -- What do we know about the origins of large firms? -- Cross-country information on firm creation -- Origin of large firms -- Growth paths of large firms -- Notes -- References -- 4. Supporting large-firm creation -- What types of constraints give rise to the "missing top"? -- How to foster large-firm creation? -- Technology changes large-firm creation, growth, and impact --
- What are the options for low-income countries? -- Case study -- Large-firm creation in Guinea: Past, present, and future -- The role of development finance institutions -- Notes -- References -- Appendixes -- Appendix A: Methodology for large-firm premiums -- Appendix B: The OECD Orbis database -- Appendix C: Why is the large-firm wage premium higher in lower-income countries? -- Appendix D: Outliers of the firm distribution -- Appendix E: IFC client data -- Appendix F: Origin and growth path results -- Appendix G: Sample for the growth path analysis -- Appendix H: Growth paths for France --
- Boxes -- Box 1.1 Comparability of data on establishments versus firms -- Box 1.2 Size and management practices in Latin America and the Caribbean -- Box 1.3 The International Income Distribution Data Set (I2D2) -- Box 1.4 Job quality and development: Is there a trade-off? -- Box 2.1 A Pareto approximation of the firm-size distribution -- Box 3.1 Ethiopian Airlines: A state-owned venture that relied on foreign know-how to grow -- Box 3.2 The Tata Group of India: A family-owned conglomerate expanding into different sectors --
- Box 3.3 Secure ID, Nigeria: Entrepreneurship building on large-firm experience -- Box 3.4 Tbilvino, Georgia: The importance of managerial ability for resilience and growth -- Box 3.5 Wadi Group, Egypt: Product and market diversification as a growth strategy -- Box 3.6 Indorama Group, Indonesia: The importance of foreign expansion for growth in the chemical industry -- Box 3.7 Atasu Logistics, Kazakhstan: Moving from internal to external finance for growth -- Box 4.1 Privatization and foreign ownership do not guarantee contestable markets: The case of South Africa's steel industry --
- Box 4.2 Severity and specificity analysis for constraints reported in World Bank Enterprise Surveys.
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- 10.1596/978-1-4648-1557-7
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- om840497406
- Author
Ciani, Andrea, author.
- Title
Making it big : why developing countries need more large firms / Andrea Ciani, Marie Caitriona Hyland, Nona Karalashvili, Jennifer L. Keller, Alexandros Ragoussis, and Trang Thu Tran.
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Washington, DC : World Bank Group, [2020]
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
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Hyland, Marie, author.
Karalashvili, Nona, author.
Keller, Jennifer, author.
Ragoussis, Alexandros, author.
Tran, Trang Thu, author.
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Print version: Ciani, Andrea Making It Big : Why Developing Countries Need More Large Firms Washington, D. C. : World Bank Publications,c2020 9781464815577
- Other Standard Identifier
10.1596/978-1-4648-1557-7 doi