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The impact of the business environment on the business creation process

Klapper, Leora; Delgado, Juan Manuel Quesada - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009

New data from the 2008 World Bank Group Entrepreneurship Survey indicates a very strong and statistically significant relationship between entrepreneurship and a better business environment. Data for 100 countries on the number of total and newly registered corporations over an eight-year period...

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The Global Findex Database 2014 : measuring financial inclusion around the world

Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Klapper, Leora; Singer, Dorothe; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015

The Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) database, launched by the World Bank in 2011, provides comparable indicators showing how people around the world save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. The 2014 edition of the database reveals that 62 percent of adults worldwide have an...

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Short-term impacts of formalization assistance and a bank information session on business registration and access to finance in Malawi

Campos, Francisco; Goldstein, Markus; McKenzie, David - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015

Despite regulatory efforts designed to make it easier for firms to formalize, informality remains extremely high among firms in Sub-Saharan Africa. In most of the region, business registration in a national registry is separate from tax registration. This paper provides initial results from an...

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Money or ideas ? a field experiment on constraints to entrepreneurship in rural Pakistan

Gine, Xavier; Mansuri, Ghazala - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

microfinance clients were offered eight full time days of business training and the opportunity to participate in a loan lottery of … training was not cost-effective for the microfinance institution, despite having a positive impact on clients. This may explain … why so few microfinance institutions offer training. Access to the larger loan, in contrast, had little effect, indicating …

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New firm registration and the business cycle

Klapper, Leora; Love, Inessa; Randall, Douglas - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

This paper uses new panel data on the number of new firm registrations in 109 countries during 2002-2012 to study the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth. The data show strong evidence of a pro-cyclical pattern in entrepreneurship. An examination of heterogeneous...

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Entrepreneurship and firm formation across countries

Klapper, Leora; Amit, Raphael; Guillen, Mauro F.; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2007

The World Bank Group Entrepreneurship Survey measures entrepreneurial activity around the world. The database includes cross-country, time-series data on the number of total and newly registered businesses for 84 countries. This paper finds significant relationships between entrepreneurial...

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A tale of two species : revisiting the effect of registration reform on informal business owners in Mexico

Bruhn, Miriam - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2012

Different views have been put forward to explain why most firms in developing countries operate informally. One view argues that informal-business owners are entrepreneurs who do not register their firm because the regulation process is too complex. Another argues that informal-business owners...

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The doing business indicators, economic growth and regulatory reform

Hanusch, Marek - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2012

Improving the investment climate is among the top priorities in development. The World Bank Group's Doing Business reports have become an important guide and benchmark to inform regulatory reforms aimed at unleashing the potential of the private sector. This paper discusses the potential role of...

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The impact of business environment reforms on new firm registration

Klapper, Leora; Love, Inessa - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2010

This paper uses panel data on the number of new firm registrations in 91 countries to study how the ease of registering a business and the magnitude of registration reforms affect new firm registrations. The authors find that the costs, days and procedures required to start a business are...

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Are the benefits of export support durable ? evidence from Tunisia

Cadot, Olivier; Fernandes, Ana M.; Gourdon, Julien; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2012

This paper evaluates the effects of the FAMEX export promotion program in Tunisia on the performance of beneficiary firms. While much of the literature assesses only the short-term impact of such programs, the paper considers also the longer-term impact. Propensity-score matching,...

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