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Improving business environment: a key to unlock investment: evidence from manufacturing firms in Senegal

Siagne, Youssouha Sakrya (2020): Improving business environment: a key to unlock investment: evidence from manufacturing firms in Senegal. Published in: dpee.sn

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Abstract

This paper deals with the impact of poor business environment on Total Factor Productivity (TFP), output and investment of manufacturing firms in Senegal. A benchmark study coupled with results from the 2014 World Bank Enterprise Survey narrowed down the list of relevant constraints to doing business in Senegal. As a result, a Real Business Cycle model in a Small Open Economy is used to measure the impact of poor infrastructure , and tax burden and regulations . Results show that poor business environment has sizeable negative impact on output and investment which is a common feature of recent studies

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