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<mods:title>Three Essays on Small Firms in Ghana</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Hardy, Morgan L</mods:namePart>
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<mods:copyrightDate>2016</mods:copyrightDate>
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<mods:note>Thesis (Ph.D. -- Brown University (2016)</mods:note>
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<mods:namePart>Foster, Andrew</mods:namePart>
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<mods:roleTerm type="text">Director</mods:roleTerm>
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<mods:namePart>Oster, Emily</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Bjorkegren, Daniel</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Brown University. Economics</mods:namePart>
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<mods:abstract>This dissertation uses original data from Ghana to show evidence of three barriers to the productivity, growth and success of small firms. Chapter 1 explores the determinants of technology diffusion. Chapter 2 shows evidence that firms are labor constrained. Chapter 3 examines the costs of unreliability in infrastructure. </mods:abstract>
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<mods:topic>Development</mods:topic>
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<mods:subject>
<mods:topic>Firms</mods:topic>
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<mods:topic>Networks</mods:topic>
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<mods:topic>Infrastructure</mods:topic>
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