Entry Regulation and the Formalization of Microenterprises in Developing Countries

The majority of microenterprises in most developing countries remain informal despite more than a decade of reforms aimed at making it easier and cheaper for them to formalize. This paper summarizes the evidence on the effects of entry reforms and related policy actions to promote firm formalization...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bruhn, Miriam, McKenzie, David
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24188