Productivity Losses and Firm Responses to Electricity Shortages: Evidence from Ghana

 0 Người đánh giá. Xếp hạng trung bình 0

Tác giả: Ama Baafra Abeberese

Ngôn ngữ: eng

Ký hiệu phân loại: 966.7 *Ghana

Thông tin xuất bản: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank, 2023

Mô tả vật lý:

Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở

ID: 325060

One of the commonly cited obstacles to firms' operations in developing economies is inadequate access to electricity. This paper explores the impact of electricity outages on firm productivity using arguably exogenous variation in outages, induced by an electricity rationing program, across small and medium-sized Ghanaian manufacturing firms. The results indicate that eliminating outages in this setting could lead to an increase in firm productivity. Further analyses of the strategies firms use to cope with outages show that changing the firm's product mix to favor less electricity-intensive products mitigates the negative impacts of outages on productivity. However, using a generator, a common strategy in many parts of the world, is unable to insulate firms from the negative impacts of outages on productivity.
Tạo bộ sưu tập với mã QR

THƯ VIỆN - TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC CÔNG NGHỆ TP.HCM

ĐT: (028) 36225755 | Email: tt.thuvien@hutech.edu.vn

Copyright @2024 THƯ VIỆN HUTECH