What drives the substantial differences in productivity across countries is one of the key questions economists look to shed light on. There are several lines of research that pick at different areas of the black box of economic development, and one that we think is crucial is structures of corporate ownership and control. However, there is surprisingly little detailed data available on this. The first wave of the Ownership Survey. Was carried out with the support of the Centre for Economic Performance.

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