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This paper analyzes firm growth patterns in South Asia, using establishment level data from an Interim Enterprise Survey. The survey was conducted by the World Bank in 2009 and 2010 and covers seven countries in the region. The first finding suggests that size in the base year gains importance for employment growth and firm age is statistically insignificant for growth. This contradicts the thought that young and small firms are the bearers of growth. Second, establishments in larger localities expanded faster, confirming the observation of urban centers as growth poles. Third, establishments in areas of severe conflict performed worse than establishments in other areas. Interestingly, the distribution of growth rates shows that both firm growth and fast-growing firms exist in conflict regions.

Achieving Shared Growth --- Conflict --- Economic Growth --- Employment growth --- Expansion --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Firm growth --- Firm size --- Gibrat's law --- Labor Markets --- Microfinance --- Private Sector Development --- Rural --- Security --- Small Scale Enterprise --- Urban --- War --- South Asia

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Using a unique dataset comprising information for more than 900 firms in the machine building sector in Belarus, this paper investigates the determinants of firm growth for an economy where state ownership of enterprises is widespread. It uses panel data models based on generalizations of Gibrat's law, total factor productivity estimates and matching methods to assess the differences in firm growth between private and state-owned firms. The results indicate that labor hoarding and soft budget constraints play a particularly important role in explaining differences in performance between these two groups of firms.

Economic Growth --- Economic Theory & Research --- Firm growth --- Firm profitability --- Gibrat's law --- Labor Markets --- Labor Policies --- Machine building industry --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Microfinance --- Poverty Reduction --- State enterprise sector

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This book presents the first attempt to model the relationships among the distribution of power, international trade, and war. Edward Mansfield dispels the widespread belief that a monotonic relationship exists between the distribution of power and patterns of both war and trade.

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