This evaluation assesses the effectiveness of the World Bank Group in helping its member countries improve their … investment climates, within the context of the World Bank Group's overall mission of poverty reduction and sustainable …

the World Bank, held in September 2003. At the meetings, key researchers and policy makers from Europe, the United States …, and developing countries around the world met to identify and brainstorm on development challenges and successes that are … examined in-depth in the World Development Report 2005: A Better Investment Climate for Everyone (report no. 28829). This title …

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 …

This impact evaluation reviews the investment climate (IC) reform programs implemented by the World Bank Group (WBG) in … impacts (changes in enterprise formation and formalization, investment, and employment); section six analyzes the …

-linearities in their impact on employment growth. The results suggest strong composition effects: A weak business environment shifts … downward the size distribution of firms. In the case of finance and business regulations this occurs by reducing the employment … reduce employment growth by affecting the growth of medium size and large firms. With significant differences between firms …