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Regulatory reform and competition policy are two important and inter-related areas of regulatory policy and public administration. Both can play a key role in improving the quality of regulation, and creating healthy and competitive markets and an attractive investment climate. This in turn...
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Over the past year a record number of governments in Sub-Saharan Africa changed their economy's regulatory environment to make it easier for domestic firms to start up and operate. In a region where relatively little attention was paid to the regulatory environment only 8 years ago, regulatory...
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anniversary of the global Doing Business report. Doing Business is a flagship product by the World Bank and IFC that garners …
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"Doing Business 2013 is the 10th in a series of annual reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that can be prepared across 185...
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activities. The Board urged IFC to collaborate more closely with other World Bank Group institutions, especially in providing … World Bank-IFC-MIGA country assistance strategies and related products. Directors noted the challenges in both maintaining … assessment of IFC's strategy and procedures for donor funded operations, and, in conjunction with other units of the World Bank …
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Economists have long known that financial services have benefits for users by allowing them to smooth consumption, save for bulky purchases, etc. But the recognition of their importance even for people with relatively low incomes those earning one to two dollars a day, for instance is relatively...
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More than 200 million people in the developing world were out of work this year. Over 1 billion are hungry, while …'t have safe drinking water and more than 2.6 billion people lack basic sanitation. The population of the developing world …
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