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Supervision of business activities through an inspections system is a key component of a government's regulatory apparatus. Several jurisdictions have attempted to address these challenges by further standardizing the approaches, resources, practices, and tools used by two or more inspectorates, a process also known as integration. This note offers insights for reformers and practitioners based on lessons from selected case studies, with a focus on in-land inspections systems integrated in the past decade and discusses some recent developments in inspection reform. A previous World Bank Group (WBG) publication identified five integration models. This study, while confirming that these models remain relevant, examines integration efforts using the five key areas of inspection reform as a lens: institutional frameworks, legal instruments, strategy planning and operational tools, competences, and e-Inspections.
Business Regulation --- Legal Framework --- Private Sector Development --- Small and Medium Size Enterprises
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The Enterprise Surveys (ES) focus on many aspects of the business environment. These factors can be accommodating or constraining for firms and play an important role in whether an economy's private sector will thrive or not. An accommodating business environment is one that encourages firms to operate efficiently. Such conditions strengthen incentives for firms to innovate and to increase productivity, key factors for sustainable development. A more productive private sector, in turn, expands employment and contributes taxes necessary for public investment in health, education, and other services. Questions contained in the ES aim at covering most of the topics mentioned above. The topics include infrastructure, trade, finance, regulations, taxes and business licensing, corruption, crime and informality, access to finance, innovation, labor, and perceptions about obstacles to doing business.
Access To Finance --- Business Environment --- Business Regulation --- Corruption --- Enterprise Development and Reform --- Infrastructure --- Private Sector Development --- Public Sector Development
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The study highlights the lessons learned and outcomes of the implementation of local economic growth and regulatory simplification technical assistance work in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) since 2007. It provides recommendations and a methodology on how to address existing market and regulatory failures elsewhere to enable private investments and enterprise and private sector growth at the local level. The report concludes that bottom-up reforms could be an approach to igniting reforms at national level(s) and offers a road map for similar policy reforms elsewhere. The report outlines how this work can lead to private investments, job and enterprise growth in localities that implement these reforms. Finally, this approach can be effective in engaging with the local authorities in broader municipal economic and infrastructure development.
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Analytical review of Inspections reforms in twenty five worldwide, with analysis of models and features of reforms undertaken. This paper provides a detailed look at the organizational and operational aspects of inspection reform and provides the basis for a substantive analysis of principles, commonalities and processes thereof. This paper attempts to standardize various approaches to inspection reform in a common framework. The paper identifies several models of organizational inspection reform and groups them into five general models/categories, applying a matrix approach to link this to the operational aspects of inspection reform. The paper features a detailed account of different models of inspection reforms in selected countries.
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This Investment Climate Reform Action Plan summarizes the economic context of Senegal as well as the main constraints private sector faces in the country, and provides a number of recommendations on which the World Bank (WB) and the Government of Senegal (GOS) can collaborate on to eliminate poverty and promote shared prosperity. Section one leverages an Investment Climate Scan drawing on economic data from global resources summarizes the situation of Senegal with reference to the macroeconomic and political factors that are impeding its development. The analysis includes benchmarking different IC characteristics against selected structural, aspirational, and regional comparators. Annex one expands on the Scan's methodology. Section two summarized relevant WBG diagnostics by presenting a stocktaking of available diagnostics and efforts to improve the country's investment climate. Section three distils the constraints Senegal faces in improving its investment climate, with a special focus on the additional challenges faced by the country during the COVID-19 crisis. Section four outlines WB recommendations through the Reform Action Plan and charts a path toward future partnership with the GOS in achieving these objectives.
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The Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) 2021 Africa report provides an assessment of the quality of policies and institutions of International Development Association (IDA); eligible countries in Sub-Saharan Africa in calendar year 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The report analyzes the CPIA scores for 2020 to assess the extent to which the policies and institutions of the region's IDA countries are fostering sustainable growth, poverty reduction, and the effective utilization of development resources. The CPIA scores quantify the level of performance of each country against 16 criteria that represent the policy and institutional arrangements of an effective poverty reduction and growth strategy. The criteria are grouped into four clusters: economic management, structural policies, policies for social inclusion and equity, and public sector management and institutions. Countries are rated on a scale between 1 and 6, with high and rising scores signifying stronger policy and institutional frameworks.
Business Environment --- Business Regulation --- Debt Management --- Equity --- Governance --- Macroeconomic Management --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- National Governance --- Public Sector Development --- Public Sector Management and Reform --- Social Inclusion --- Sovereign Debt
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This paper studies the effect of business registration regulation on economic activity using micro-level data. The identification strategy exploits the fact that a recent business registration reform in Mexico was introduced in different municipalities at different points in time. Using panel data from the Mexican employment survey, I find that the reform increased the number of registered businesses by 5 percent in eligible industries. This increase was due to former wage earners opening businesses. Former unregistered business owners were not more likely to register their business after the reform. Moreover, employment in eligible industries went up by 2.8 percent, and people who were previously unemployed or out of the labor force were more likely to work as wage earners after the reform. Finally, the results imply that the competition from new entrants lowered prices by 0.6 percent and decreased the income of incumbent businesses by 3.2 percent.
Business entry --- Business Environment --- Business in Development --- Business Registration --- Business regulation --- Businesses --- Competitiveness and Competition Policy --- E-Business --- Economic development --- Labor Policies --- License --- Private Sector --- Private Sector Development --- Public Sector Development --- Results --- Social Protections and Labor --- Uses --- Web
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This paper studies the effect of business registration regulation on economic activity using micro-level data. The identification strategy exploits the fact that a recent business registration reform in Mexico was introduced in different municipalities at different points in time. Using panel data from the Mexican employment survey, I find that the reform increased the number of registered businesses by 5 percent in eligible industries. This increase was due to former wage earners opening businesses. Former unregistered business owners were not more likely to register their business after the reform. Moreover, employment in eligible industries went up by 2.8 percent, and people who were previously unemployed or out of the labor force were more likely to work as wage earners after the reform. Finally, the results imply that the competition from new entrants lowered prices by 0.6 percent and decreased the income of incumbent businesses by 3.2 percent.
Business entry --- Business Environment --- Business in Development --- Business Registration --- Business regulation --- Businesses --- Competitiveness and Competition Policy --- E-Business --- Economic development --- Labor Policies --- License --- Private Sector --- Private Sector Development --- Public Sector Development --- Results --- Social Protections and Labor --- Uses --- Web
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The report identifies the need for reforms in five complementary areas to boost recovery, productivity, and economic transformation: 1) business regulatory environment; 2) foreign direct investment (FDI); 3) access to productive finance; 4) innovation and entrepreneurship; and 5) participation in global value chains. These areas were selected through consultations with the government and private sector and to complement other analytical work. This report analyzes each area in detail and suggests concrete reform action plans. A cross-cutting trend-which has been accelerated by the COVID-19 crisis -is the importance of digitization within both the public and private sectors. Public policies to support digitization can increase efficiency, enable new business models, and keep firms from lagging behind in domestic and global markets.
Access To Finance --- Business Environment --- Business Regulation --- Employment and Unemployment --- Enterprise Development and Reform --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Foreign Direct Investment --- Innovation --- Investment Climate --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Private Sector Development --- Property Rights --- Social Protections and Labor
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The report's main objective is to provide policy makers, regulators, and the private sector, primarily in emerging economies and developing countries, with a tool for enforcing international best practice and for developing strategies for successful reforms in the area of construction regulation. This paper is divided into the following eight chapters: 1) the importance of construction regulation reform. The first chapter defines three overarching goals of construction-regulation reform and addresses why and how these efforts can pay off; 2) reforms as good regulation not deregulation. This chapter points out that deregulating is not the answer; 3) the distribution and focus of construction regulation reform. Leveraging eight years of data from the doing business reports, this chapter provides an overview of reforms initiated within the doing business scenario and the key regional trends; 4) eight key policies affecting process efficiency, transparency, regulatory outcomes, and costs. This chapter provides a concise description of eight priority policy areas; 5) initiating reform and addressing typical challenges. Based on international experience, this chapter focuses on how to start reforms and covers issues including who should be involved in construction-regulation reform and how reform should be sequenced; 6) an overview of best practices. This chapter summarizes the best practices around four major issues, namely, building codes, procedures and transparency, payment of fees, and measures concerning stakeholder liability and accountability; 7) performance measures and evaluation of building regulatory systems. This chapter defines guiding principles for leading the reform effort and includes a meaningful set of indicators and a framework for monitoring outcomes; and 8) ten case studies. This chapters 10 in-depth case studies round out the discussion.
Best Practices --- Business Regulation --- Chambers of Commerce --- Cities --- Communications Technology --- Communities --- Conflict Resolution --- Construction Sector --- Consumer Protection --- E-Business --- Housing --- Industry --- Information Technology --- Investment Climate --- Legislation --- Outsourcing --- Private Sector --- Private Sector Development --- Public Health --- Public Safety --- Public Sector --- Public Sector Development --- Regulators --- Technology Industry --- Urban Areas --- Urban Development --- Urban Housing --- Urban Planning --- Urbanization --- Zoning
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