Business Regulations and Poverty

Business Regulations and Poverty

Using panel data for 189 economies from 2005 to 2013, this paper shows that business-friendly regulations are correlated with the poverty headcount at the country level. This association is significant using the World Bank's Doing Business ind...

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Main Authors: Djankov, Simeon, Georgieva, Dorina, Ramalho, Rita
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
Subjects:
PROPERTY RIGHTS
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
BUSINESS REGULATION
BUSINESS REGISTRATION
FIRM ENTRY
ACCESS TO FINANCE
CONTRACT LAW
POVERTY REDUCTION
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/355791551471887623/Business-Regulations-and-Poverty
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31340
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spelling okr-10986-313402022-09-15T12:18:46Z Business Regulations and Poverty Djankov, Simeon Georgieva, Dorina Ramalho, Rita PROPERTY RIGHTS BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT BUSINESS REGULATION BUSINESS REGISTRATION FIRM ENTRY ACCESS TO FINANCE CONTRACT LAW POVERTY REDUCTION Using panel data for 189 economies from 2005 to 2013, this paper shows that business-friendly regulations are correlated with the poverty headcount at the country level. This association is significant using the World Bank's Doing Business indicators on getting credit and contract enforcement. The findings suggest that the conduit for poverty reduction is business creation, as a source of new jobs and a manifestation of thriving entrepreneurship. 2019-03-04T22:47:46Z 2019-03-04T22:47:46Z 2019-03 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/355791551471887623/Business-Regulations-and-Poverty http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31340 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8763 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
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topic PROPERTY RIGHTS
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
BUSINESS REGULATION
BUSINESS REGISTRATION
FIRM ENTRY
ACCESS TO FINANCE
CONTRACT LAW
POVERTY REDUCTION
spellingShingle PROPERTY RIGHTS
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
BUSINESS REGULATION
BUSINESS REGISTRATION
FIRM ENTRY
ACCESS TO FINANCE
CONTRACT LAW
POVERTY REDUCTION
Djankov, Simeon
Georgieva, Dorina
Ramalho, Rita
Business Regulations and Poverty
relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8763
description Using panel data for 189 economies from 2005 to 2013, this paper shows that business-friendly regulations are correlated with the poverty headcount at the country level. This association is significant using the World Bank's Doing Business indicators on getting credit and contract enforcement. The findings suggest that the conduit for poverty reduction is business creation, as a source of new jobs and a manifestation of thriving entrepreneurship.
format Working Paper
author Djankov, Simeon
Georgieva, Dorina
Ramalho, Rita
author_facet Djankov, Simeon
Georgieva, Dorina
Ramalho, Rita
author_sort Djankov, Simeon
title Business Regulations and Poverty
title_short Business Regulations and Poverty
title_full Business Regulations and Poverty
title_fullStr Business Regulations and Poverty
title_full_unstemmed Business Regulations and Poverty
title_sort business regulations and poverty
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2019
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/355791551471887623/Business-Regulations-and-Poverty
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31340
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