Doing business in a deals world: The doubly false premise of rules reform

Sabyasachi Kar, Lant Pritchett, Spandan Roy and Kunal Sen

No wp-2019-81, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: The World Bank's Doing Business reports have evoked an intense policy debate about whether countries should simplify regulatory rules in order to stimulate investment and growth, or make them more stringent in order to achieve public policy objectives. Both sides of this debate, however, assume that the business environment in developing countries is defined and determined by the exact implementation of these rules by the state and by firms — an assumption demonstrated to be false by a number of studies.

Keywords: Business; Rules; Building State Capabilities; Investment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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