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- Re-thinking the Approach to Informal Businesses: Typologies, Evidence and Future Exploration, WBG 2020
- Business Environment Reform Guidelines, EC 2020
- The Business Environment Reform Facility 2016-2018
- Economic Governance and Business Environment Reform: Lessons from 10 years implementing ENABLE in Nigeria, 2017
- What works in Business Environment Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
- World Development Report 2017 - Governance and the Law
- Business Environment Reform and Poverty: Rapid Evidence Assessment, DFID, October 2015.
- Business Environment Reform and Investment Promotion and Facilitation: Rapid Evidence Assessment, DFID, October 2015
- Is there a causal link between the investment climate and growth? A review of the evidence, LASER, June 2015
- Leveraging the Impact of Business Environment Reform: The Contribution of Quality Infrastructure. Lessons from Practice, DCED Working Paper, 2014/ updated 2015
- Doing Investment Climate Reform Differently. Why, what and how? LASER 2015
- On the benefits of formalization: Panel evidence from Vietnam, Amadou Boly, UNU-WIDER Working Paper, 2015
- On the effects of formalization on taxes and wages: Panel evidence from Vietnam, Amadou Boly, UNU WIDER Working Paper, 2015
- Short-term impacts of formalization assistance and a bank information session on business registration and access to finance in Malawi, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, 2015
- DCED (2015): Measuring Business Environment Reform Results - Sample Indicators, 2015
- Impact of the Business Environment on Output and Productivity in Africa, AFDB, 2015
- The political economy determinants of economic growth in Malawi, by J. Said and K. Singini, 2014
- Alternative Dispute Resolution for Businesses in Developing Countries, Brian Lucas, GSDRC Helpdesk Research Report, 2014
- Investment Climate Reforms. An Independent Evaluation of World Bank Group Support to Reforms of Business Regulations, IEG, 2014
- Supporting Business Environment Reforms: Practical Guidance for Development Agencies - Annex: Supporting Quality Infrastructure in Developing and Transitional Economies, DCED 2014
- Assessing the impact of regulatory reform in developing countries, Colin Kirkpatrick, Journal of Public Administration and Development, 2014
- Learning dynamics and support for economic reforms: why good news can be bad, World Bank, 2014
- Regulatory reform for closing Africa's competitiveness gap, by Ioannis Kessides, UNU-WIDER
- Enterprise formalization - Fact or fiction? A quest for case studies, ILO and GIZ, 2014
- 'Too Small to Regulate', Basu and Dixit, World Bank Working Paper, 2014
- Aiding institutional reforms in developing countries. Lessons from the Philippines on what works, what doesn't and why, by David Booth, ODI, 2014.
- Regulatory Assessment Toolkit : A Practical Methodology for Assessing Regulation on Trade and Investment in Services, World Bank, 2014
- Informality, Growth and Development in Africa, Nancy Benjamin and Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, UNU-WIDER, 2014
- The Impact of Business Environment on Small and Medium Enterprise, Rocha, 2014
- WBG Investment Climate Impact Programme
- Getting down to business: Strengthening Economies through Business Registration Reforms, IFC Smart Lesson, December 2013
- What works for market development: A review of the evidence, Sinha, Holmberg and Thomas, Sida, 2013
- Stunted growth: Why don’t African firms create more jobs?, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, 2013
- Supporting Business Environment Reforms: Practical Guidance for Development Agencies - Annex: Measuring Donor-Supported Business Environment Reform Results
- Case Studies in the Measurement of Donor-Supported Business Environment Reform Results, Simon White, 2013
- The effects of country risk and conflict on infrastructure PPPs, by Gonzala Araya et. al., World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, 2013
- Political economy analysis for economic and private sector reforms, Sumedh Rao, GSDRC, 2013
- Strategic Industrial Policy and Business Environment Reform: Are they Compatible? John Weiss, DCED, 2013
- Guidelines for reducing municipal red tape. How municipalities can improve service delivery that supports small business, DTI, 2013
- Entry Regulation and Formalisation of Microenterprises in Developing Countries, by Miriam Bruhn and David McKenzie, The World Bank, June 2013
- The Dynamics of Economic Growth: A Visual Handbook of Growth Rates, Regimes, Transitions and Volatility, ESID, 2013
- Trade Costs: What Have We Learned? A Synthesis Report, Moïsé, E. and F. Le Bris, OECD, 2013
- Private sector development and governance in Ghana, by Freda Asem, Matthias Busse, Robert Osei and Magdalene Silberberger, The IGC, 2013
- What drives the dynamics of business growth? Bravo-Biosca, A., C. Criscuolo and C. Menon, OECD, 2013
- Corruption and the Private Sector. A review of issues, Gonzalo F. Forgues-Puccio, EPS PEAKS, 2013
- Estimating the Constraints to Agricultural Trade of Developing Countries, Moïsé, E et al, 2013
- Assessing Private Sector Contributions to Job Creation and Poverty Reduction, IFC, 2013
- Trade Logistics Reforms. Linking Business to Global Markets, by Uma Subramaniam, The World Bank Group, 2012
- Economic Governance: Improving the economic and regulatory environment for supporting private sector activity, Colin Kirkpatrick, 2012
- ENABLE Case Study: Making Business Membership Organisations Work for the Poor, Adam Smith International and the Springfield Centre, 2012
- Implementing Energy Subsidy Reforms: Evidence from Developing Countries, Maria Vagliasindi, World Bank, 2012
- The evidence of the impact on investment rates of changes in the enforcement of contracts. A systematic review, by Aboal, D., Noya, N., Rius, A., EPPI-Centre, 2012
- Doing Business 2013: Smarter Regulations for Small and Medium Enterprises, The World Bank, 2012
- Top ten entries, in terms of total page views since January 2010
- Top ten entries, in terms of page views in September 2012
- Competition Policy. Encouraging thriving markets for development, The World Bank Group, 2012
- OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform: Indonesia 2012: Strengthening Co-ordination and Connecting Markets
- Systems Change in the Business Enabling Environment. Investment Climate Practice Note, Miguel Laric, DFID, 2012
- Selected links to other Business Environment sites
- The Political Dynamics of Economic Growth, Kunal Sen, 2012
- The Demand for, and Consequences of, Formalization among Informal Firms in Sri Lanka, 2012
- Border Posts, Checkpoints, and Intra-African Trade: Challenges and Solutions, AfDB, 2012
- Priming the Soil: Small Business in South Africa (2011)
- Business Registration Reform in Viet Nam: A situation analysis of the reform and of UNIDO support (UNIDO, 2011)
- Institutions and Productive Employment Programs in Latin America and the Carribean. Methodological Approach and Preliminary Results, IDB, 2011