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This report is an output of the Better Regulation for Growth Program between the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the … UK Department for International Development (DFID) and IC, the Investment Climate Advisory Services of the World Bank … oversees, comments and reports on the quality of regulatory proposals before decisions are made about regulation; 3) clear and …
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policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic across 154 jurisdictions. It documents that authorities around the world have taken …
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This paper analyzes analyze the impact of deregulatory reforms in India during the 1990s, which eliminated compulsory industrial licensing, on manufacturing firms' investment decisions. The paper finds an economically and statistically significant positive effect of delicensing on investment. It...
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administration. Both can play a key role in improving the quality of regulation, and creating healthy and competitive markets and an … discusses definitions and key issues associated with regulation, regulatory quality, and competition policy. This discussion … focuses on competition policy as it relates to restrictions on competition and also pro-competitive regulation, which involves …
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countries an incentive to improve policies. The paper estimates that a change in the World Banks Country Policy and …
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Pakistan's power sector underwent a substantial, if protracted, reform process. Beginning with an independent power producer program in 1994, the full unbundling of the national vertically integrated power and water utility, the Water and Power Development Authority, and the establishment of a...
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Vietnam's power sector has developed rapidly since the 1990s to become a top performer among developing countries. This success has occurred mostly under a state-owned utility, Electricity Vietnam. Select market-oriented reforms to date have also had some positive impact. By the late 1990s, the...
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regulation can promote competition in mutual funds (MFs) distribution. In many emerging market economics (EMEs) where both the …
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using the OECD Product Market Regulation methodology and comparison to regulations in the OECD. The note focuses on topics … covered by the 2018 OECD-WBG product market regulation (PMR) indicators such as regulation of network industries, professional … services, state-owned enterprises, and restrictions on foreign businesses. The OECD-WBG product market regulation indicators …
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Incorporating qualitative methods into the evaluation of development programs has become increasingly popular in recent years, both for the distinctive insights such approaches can bring in their own right and because of their capacity to comple
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