A Helping Hand or the Long Arm of the Law? Experimental Evidence on What Governments Can Do to Formalize Firms

Many governments have spent much of the past decade trying to extend a helping hand to informal businesses by making it easier and cheaper for them to formalize. Much less effort has been devoted to raising the costs of remaining informal, through increasing enforcement of existing regulations. This...

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Main Authors:	Henrique de Andrade, Gustavo, Bruhn, Miriam, McKenzie, David
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, D.C. 2013
Subjects:	administrative records arrangement arrangements automobile beliefs bookstores boundary business facilitation business registration business sector cash flow Chamber of Commerce clustering company complexity Corporation data collection decision-making discovery discussion discussions documents Economic Activity economic development employment enabling environment entrepreneur entrepreneurs entrepreneurship financial services Firms Global Positioning System government office government policy government revenues GPS human capital hypothesis testing idea ideas indices inspection inspections Institution Job Creation Knowledge Claims license license fees licenses licensing manufacturing market entry marketing menu Microenterprises one-stop shop open access phone number photo Private Sector Private Sector Development probabilities probability procurement procurement process Regulatory reform regulatory reforms regulatory requirements researchers result results shop shops small businesses small enterprise Small Enterprises small firm small firms SME stores suppliers taxation telephone unfair competition Web website Microdata Set
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16323

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