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    Gender and Firm Performance in Africa: Does the Business Environment Play a Moderating Role?
    (African Economic Research Consortium, 2024-04-10) Okumu, Ibrahim Mike; Nathan, Sunday; Bbaale, Edward
    This paper examines the moderating role of the business environment in the relationship between the gender of the top manager and firm performance (measured as sales per employee), and whether female-managed firms perform better the higher the proportion of female employees in the firm. The paper uses World Bank Enterprise Survey data of 14,561 firms from 29 African countries collected between 2010 and 2016. The descriptive analysis reveals significant variation in the performance and experience of business environment constraints that disadvantage female-managed firms. Controlling for potential endogeneity POLICY BRIEF Gender and Firm Performance in Africa: Does the Business Environment Play a Moderating Role? Ibrahim Mike Okumu, Sunday Nathan and Edward Bbaale October 2023 / No.799 2 Policy Brief No.799 and country fixed effects, we show that female-managed firms are associated with lower performance compared to male-managed firms. Electricity outages, informal competition, and corruption account for the performance gap between female and male-managed firms. However, we show that large female-managed firms perform better than male-managed large firms. Overall, the results imply that strengthening Africa’s business environment is central to closing the performance gap between male and female managers.
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    Technology Adoption and Access to Credit in Tanzania: A Spatial Econometric Analysis
    (African Economic Research Consortium, 2024-04-10) Okumu, Ibrahim Mike; Nathan, Sunday; Bbaale, Edward
    This paper aims to analyze the relationship between technology adoption and access to credit by farmers in Tanzania, with particular focus on spatial spillover effects on technology adoption. We examine new technology diffusion by farmers through their peers and measure geographical proximity using farms’ GIS localization data. Using the 2012-2013 Tanzanian Household Survey and a spatial lag probit model, we find evidence that farmers’ access to finance leads to increased agricultural technology adoption, and that the spillover effect plays a role in this process. In addition, our results are robust over a 3-year period (i.e., POLICY BRIEF Technology Adoption and Access to Credit in Tanzania: A Spatial Econometric Analysis Ibrahim Mike Okumu, Sunday Nathan and Edward Bbaale October 2023 / No.800 2 Policy Brief No.800 2008-2009, 2010-2011, and 2012-2013). Finally, evidence of the existence of spillover effects in the adoption of agricultural technology suggests that interactions between farmers who are 'geographical neighbours' should be supported/exploited to achieve substantial efficiency and savings in new agricultural technology extension.