IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ess/wpaper/id11442.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

The Ease of Doing Business Rank: An Assessment of its Macroeconomic Relevance

Author

Listed:
  • A. Arul Jason
  • Vivek Moorthy

Abstract

This paper examines the macroeconomic impact of World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business (EDB) rank, of increasing importance to policy makers, using simple but robust cross-country regressions. Its main findings are first that GDP per capita is negatively correlated with the EDB rank. Second, that average growth over a ten year period is negatively related to starting per capita income. It points to broad evidence linking these correlations to labour supply factors. Overall, it shows the EDB rank to have limited macroeconomic usefulness and relevance.

Suggested Citation

  • A. Arul Jason & Vivek Moorthy, 2016. "The Ease of Doing Business Rank: An Assessment of its Macroeconomic Relevance," Working Papers id:11442, eSocialSciences.
    • Handle: RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:11442
    Note: Institutional Papers
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.esocialsciences.org/Articles/show_Article.aspx?acat=InstitutionalPapers&aid=11442
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Yi, Changjun & Zhang, Jipeng & Zhan, Yun & Yan, Xiaojuan & Chen, Chusheng, 2021. "Internationalization speed and subsidiary survival of EMNCs: The moderating roles of CEO international experience and state ownership," Journal of Asian Economics, Elsevier, vol. 77(C).
    2. Ranđelović Saša & Martinović Nikola, 2022. "National Competitiveness and Foreign Direct Investment in Emerging Europe," Economic Themes, Sciendo, vol. 60(1), pages 21-40, March.
    3. Eric Mokwaro Bosire, 2019. "Does Better Business Regulatory Environment Translate to Increased Foreign Direct Investment Inflows? Evidence from Eastern Africa," International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, Econjournals, vol. 9(4), pages 119-136.
    4. Adesola Adebowale, Hammed & Ebere, Chwuks & Sola Ojo, Oloruntimilehin & Okanla Bello, Fatai, 2022. "Impacts Of Governance On Investment Climate In Sub-Sahara Africa," Ilorin Journal of Economic Policy, Department of Economics, University of Ilorin, vol. 9(1), pages 30-44, June.
    5. Ogege, Samson, 2022. "Exchange Rate And Income Distribution In Nigeria," Ilorin Journal of Economic Policy, Department of Economics, University of Ilorin, vol. 9(2), pages 47-62, June.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:11442. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Padma Prakash (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.esocialsciences.org .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.