Business Registration Reform Case Studies : Bulgaria
This case study focuses on the attempts of the government of Bulgaria (GoB) to promote and implement reform of the business registration system to better suit the new economic framework that emerged in the country following the collapse of communis...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/728771468333265765/Bulgaria-Business-registration-reform-case-studies http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28069 |
| Summary: | This case study focuses on the attempts
of the government of Bulgaria (GoB) to promote and implement
reform of the business registration system to better suit
the new economic framework that emerged in the country
following the collapse of communist rule. The uniqueness of
the Bulgarian case is that there were two distinct stages of
business registration reforms, which marked two separate
periods in the sociopolitical development of Bulgaria: the
transformation from planned to market economy and the
accession of the country to the European Union (EU). This
collection of case studies describes experiences and draws
lessons from varied business registration reform programs in
economies in vastly different stages of development:
Bulgaria, Estonia, Ireland, Madagascar, and Malaysia. The
case studies were written based on a desk study of reforms
in each country discussed. Then, more detailed information
was gathered by field-based researchers. In some cases,
detail on the business registration process that was in
place prior to implementation of reforms was unavailable. As
such, data on the number of businesses registered and the
time required to completed registration before and after the
reforms cannot be compared and contrasted. The partial
success of the reform during the first year was a
consequence of problems in four areas: lack of legislative
will, insufficient financial support, inappropriate
organizational structure of the new business registration
agency, and weak human resource management. All of these
problems delayed progress and had negative effects on the
registration agency and the business community. |
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