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Do power outages hurt registered firms' access to finance in developing countries?

This paper examines the effect of power outages on registered firms' access to finance in developing countries, using firm-level data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys (2006–2024) covering 99 countries and over 120,000 observations. Applying entropy balancing, we show that power outages signifi...

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Published in:Oxford Economic Papers Vol. 78; no. 3; pp. 770 - 799
Main Author: Kouakou, Dorgyles C M
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Jul2026
Subjects:
Economic impact
Grants (Money)
Corporations
Electric power failures
Developing countries
Economic statistics
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