SME Policy and Firms’ Productivity in Latin America
43 Pages Posted: 26 Oct 2009
Abstract
Very little is known about the effectiveness of SME policies, and a careful look at the structure, mechanisms and incentives provided by these policies suggest caution in their implementation and, most importantly, the need to carefully and closely monitor their results. This paper relies on the microeconometric analysis of a homogeneous dataset of sixteen Latin American and Caribbean countries to analyze the magnitude and determinants of the productivity gap between large and SME firms and to simulate of the impact on productivity of various policy scenarios.
Keywords: SMEs, SME policy, productivity, Latin America
JEL Classification: D24, L53, L60, O38, O54
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