Batra, Geeta; Kaufmann, Daniel; Stone, Andrew H. W. - 2013
linkages between governance constraints and business growth and investment. The World Business Environment Survey (WBES), an … initiative led by the World Bank Group in 1999 and 2000, collected enterprise data from more than 10,000 firms in 80 countries …. Econometric analysis of responses to that survey points to a strong association between corruption, financing, regulatory and tax …