The effects of business environments on development : surveying new firm-level evidence (English)

In the past decade, the World Bank has promoted improving business environments as a key strategy for development, which has resulted in a significant amount of investment in collecting firm-level investment climate surveys across countries. What lessons have emerged from the papers using these new data? The key finding is that the effects of business environments are heterogeneous and depend crucially on industry, initial conditions, and complementary...
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Xu, Lixin Colin.

The effects of business environments on development : surveying new firm-level evidence (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5402 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/316751468134397403

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