Trends in Corruption and Regulatory Burden in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
This study assesses levels and trends in corruption and the administrative burden from government regulation of private firms. It is largely based on the fourth round of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)-World Bank Busines...
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World Bank
2012
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| Online Access: | http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000334955_20110208041632 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/2265 |
| Summary: | This study assesses levels and trends in
corruption and the administrative burden from government
regulation of private firms. It is largely based on the
fourth round of the European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development (EBRD)-World Bank Business Environment and
Enterprise Performance Surveys (BEEPS) covering over 11,000
firms in 29 countries in Europe and Central Asia (ECA). The
report provides an update of the progress that ECA countries
have made since 2005, extends (in certain respects) the
analysis of corruption and regulatory burden on firms
provided in the earlier Anticorruption in Transition (ACT)
reports covering the period from 1999 to 2005, and in
several instances provides comparisons of ECA countries to
similar countries outside of the region using the World Bank
enterprise surveys and other sources of data. Despite making
significant progress on administrative bribery overall,
corruption is cited more frequently by firms in the region
as an obstacle to doing business than any other problem,
with the exception of tax rates. In part, this continued
perception of corruption as one of the most serious problems
for business may reflect slower progress on other aspects of
corruption not measured directly in firm-state interactions
covered by the BEEPS. |
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