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Regulation and macroeconomic performance
Loayza, Norman - 2005
"Regulation is purportedly enacted to serve specific social purposes. In reality, however, it follows a more complex … its justification and objectives, regulation can have potentially significant macroeconomic consequences by helping or … Serven provide an empirical analysis of the macroeconomic impact of regulation. They first characterize the stylized facts on …
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Regulatory assessment toolkit : a practical methodology for assessing regulation on trade and investment in services
Molinuevo, Martín - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394003
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Bulgaria - Ex-post impact assessment of the act on limiting administrative regulation and administration control on economic activity
World Bank - 2012
The ex-post impact assessment of the Limiting Administrative Regulation and Administrative Control on Economic Activity …
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Influence of Covid-19 On China's Urban Planning and Design Regulations : A Systematic Review of Recent Policy and Regulatory Changes
World Bank - 2021
The purpose of this note is to explain how the pandemic is reshaping regulations in China and affecting urban planning and city management. In preparing this note, a meta-analysis was conducted based on a review of China's urban planning responses to COVID-19. The review covered newly issued...
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Foreign direct investment, regulations, and growth
Busse, Matthias - 2006
"This paper explores the linkage between income growth rates and foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows. So far the evidence is rather mixed, as no robust relationship between FDI and income growth has been established. The authors argue that countries need a sound business environment in the...
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Trade, regulations, and growth
Bolaky, Bineswaree - 2004
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Better Regulation for Higher Growth : Bulgaria's Business Regulation - Achievements and Recommendations
World Bank - 2012
Barriers to Business (volume two) studies the overall burden of regulation for companies in comparison to other new European … stakeholders. The ex-post impact assessment of the act on limiting administrative regulation and administrative control on economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550731
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Effects of privatization and ownership in transition economies
Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2009
"The paper evaluates the effects of privatization in the post-communist economies and China. In post-communist economies privatization to foreign owners results in a rapid improvement in performance of firms, while performance effects of privatization to domestic owners are less impressive and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394105
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AIDS and dualism : Ethiopia's burden under rational expectations
Bell, Clive - 2009
"An AIDS epidemic threatens Ethiopia with a long wave of premature adult mortality, and thus with an enduring setback to capital formation and economic growth. The authors develop a two-sector model with three overlapping generations and intersectorally mobile labor, in which young adults...
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The quality of fiscal adjustment and the long-run growth impact of fiscal policy in Brazil
Blanco, Fernando - 2006
"The authors describe the main trends of Brazil's fiscal policy during the past decade and analyze (1) the ability to raise the primary surplus in response to external shocks, (2) the pro-cyclical nature of fiscal policy, and (3) the long-run impact of government expenditure composition and...
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