We propose a new criterion which reflects both the concern for welfare (utility) and the concern for rights in the … evaluation of economic development paths. The concern for rights is captured by a pre-ordering over combinations of thresholds …. These thresholds are interpreted as minimal rights to be guaranteed to all generations. They are endogenously chosen within …

formulation with appropriate and relevant measurement of entrepreneurship and the business environment, the primary focus in this … paper is to scrutinize existing international indicators, in particular the World Bank's Doing Business (DB) indicators and …

This paper provides a systematic review of challenges to doing business in Africa. It complements the extant literature … by answering two critical questions: what are the linkages between the ease of doing business and economic development …; and what are the challeng es to doing business in Africa? In providing answers to the se questions, the nexus between the …