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Ethiopia has two types of manufacturing firms - big productive firms that are highly automated and don't hire a lot of people, and small unproductive firms thar hire a relative high number but have terrible productivity growth.

This should be the exact opposite of what should happen.

https://drodrik.scholar.harvard.edu/publications/africas-manufacturing-puzzle-evidence-tanzanian-and-ethiopian-firms

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