performance. Concentrated private ownership has a stronger positive effect on performance than dispersed ownership in the post … collective ownership does not have a negative effect. In the post-communist economies new firms are equally or more efficient … private ownership, corporate governance, access to know-how and markets, and the legal and institutional system matter for …

"Ownership and control over assets such as land and housing provide direct and indirect benefits to individuals and … the gender dimensions of asset ownership. This paper sets out a framework for researchers who are interested in collecting … data on individual level asset ownership and analyzing the gender asset gap. It reviews best practices in existing surveys …

of Serbia to examine the relationship between productivity, the investment climate, and private ownership of firms. As …. Identification of the relative effects of various investment climate constraints and ownership on productivity should serve as a … guide for such prioritization. Although ownership has recently received less attention in policy decisions than before …

Tenth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 185 economies, Doing Business 2013 measures … overall "ease of doing business", and analyzes reforms to business regulation -- identifying which economies are strengthening …

countries on their overall ""ease of doing business"", and analyzes reforms to business regulation—identifying which countries … unreasonable costs on businesses. Where business regulation is burdensome and competition limited, success depends more on whom you …

Eleventh in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 189 economies, Doing Business 2014 measures … economies on their overall “ease of doing business”, and analyzes reforms to business regulation – identifying which economies …