The World Bank Group's Doing Business Indicators (DBIs) have become an important guide and benchmark for investment … climate reform. This article discusses the role of the DBIs in the reform process and informs this discussion with an … DBI ranking to enhance the visibility of a government's general reform efforts; or they can be aimed at maximizing the …

dataset on business regulatory reforms from the World Bank’s Doing Business reports. Then, I test the hypothesis that business … regulatory reform is associated with a 0.15% increase in growth rate of GDP. …

This paper studies the effects of regulation on economic growth and the relative size of the informal sector in a large … regulation affects macroeconomic performance and economic growth in particular. The paper concludes that a heavier regulatory …

dataset on business regulatory reforms from the World Bank's Doing Business reports. Then, I test the hypothesis that business … regulatory reform is associated with a 0.15 percent increase in growth rate of GDP. …

The paper presents results of World Bank survey in 2005 undertaken within the project Doing Business, with special … regard to the Czech Republic position. Doing business conditions are assessed particularly according to the regulation burden … directed to improvement of most critical points. Moreover, there are presented the relations between regulation quality and …

support to this view. We find that in countries with less stringent job market regulation the long-run impact of Unemployment … faster in countries with looser job-market regulation, compared with countries with stricter regulation. These findings have …

regime to include art dealers has been attributed to the failure of regulation and the vulnerabilities inherent in the market … to laundering. This paper considers vulnerabilities to money laundering and examines the types of regulation that apply …

World index, we estimate the potential causal impact of the rule of law on the long-run net income inequality. Conditioning …