This paper presents new indicators for 185 economies measuring the accessibility of business regulatory information. The paper shows that the new data can serve as meaningful proxies for the overall transparency of governments and the new data have explanatory power for the quality of business regulation. The paper finds the regulatory environment to be most opaque in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East and North Africa, where businesses can often...
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2014/12/01
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政策研究报告
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WPS7132
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1
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2014/12/01
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Disclosed
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Transparent government and business regulation : "open for business?"
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united states agency for international development