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Creating comparative advantage: Identifying information and technology constraints facing SMEs in supplying large firms in Rwanda

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In this study a survey of buyers and suppliers in Kigali was conducted to explore the barriers to the formation of more local buyer-supplier linkages with a focus on the role of information.

Authors

Lauren Falcao Bergquist

Assistant Professor of Economics and Global Affairs, Yale University

Jie Bai

Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Vittorio Bassi

Associate Professor of Economics, University of Southern California

Ignacio Marra de Artiñano

PhD Candidate, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Christian Lippitsch

Researcher, International Growth Centre

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