The Firms Speak: What the World Business Environment Survey Tells Us about Constraints on Private Sector Development
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- Kaufmann, Daniel & Batra, Geeta & Stone, Andrew H. W., 2003. "The Firms Speak: What the World Business Environment Survey Tells Us about Constraints on Private Sector Development," MPRA Paper 8213, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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Keywords
Business Environment; Survey; Business Constraints; Private Sector Development; Investment Climate; Governance; Corruption; Capture;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- K42 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
- L20 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - General
- L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation
- M13 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - New Firms; Startups
- M21 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Economics - - - Business Economics
- O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
- P10 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2004-05-16 (Development)
- NEP-LAW-2004-05-16 (Law & Economics)
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