Investment Climate Reform : An Independent Evaluation of World Bank Group Support to Reforms of Business Regulations

Independent Evaluation Group

World Bank Group, Washington, DC

关键词: ACCESS TO CREDIT;    ACCESS TO FINANCE;    ACCOUNTABILITY;    ACCOUNTING;    ADMINISTRATIVE BARRIERS;   

RP-ID  :  93533

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Private firms are at the forefront of the development process providing more than 90percent of jobs, supplying goods and services, and representing a significant sourceof tax revenues. Their ability to grow, create jobs, and reduce poverty dependscritically on a well-functioning investment climate defined as the policy, legal andinstitutional arrangements underpinning the functioning of markets and the level oftransaction costs and risks associated with starting, operating and closing a business.The World Bank Group has been providing extensive support to investment climatereforms—having supported over the period FY07–13, 819 projects with investmentclimate interventions in 119 countries for a total estimated value of $3.7 billion. Thisevaluation is designed to assess the relevance, effectiveness, and social value as itrelates to concerns for inclusion and shared prosperity of World Bank Groupsupport to investment climate reforms.