Does Media Stimulate Reform Efforts?
This paper investigates to what extent media impacts political decisions. A viable practical approach to test the relationship between mass media and political actions is through the use of the World Bank’s Doing Business data, specifically, by ass...
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okr-10986-322962022-08-26T12:19:11Z Does Media Stimulate Reform Efforts? Ramalho, Rita Saltane, Valentina MEDIA BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT BUSINESS REFORM REGULATION DOING BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT POLITICAL ACTION MEDIA COVERAGE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS FIRM ENTRY CORRUPTION PERCEPTION INDEX This paper investigates to what extent media impacts political decisions. A viable practical approach to test the relationship between mass media and political actions is through the use of the World Bank’s Doing Business data, specifically, by assessing local media coverage of Doing Business and implementation of business regulatory reforms. The tested hypothesis is that countries with higher media coverage of Doing Business tend to carry out more business regulatory reforms, assuming one- and two-year lags between media coverage and reform implementation. To achieve this objective, the study put together a comprehensive data set that encompasses country-specific local media coverage of the Doing Business report in 190 economies. The study finds that local media coverage of Doing Business has a significant influence on regulators’ actions. First, the analysis shows that the number of local media articles tends to increase the probability of whether a country does any reform. Second, countries with greater media coverage of Doing Business indicators tend to have higher numbers of implemented reforms. 2019-08-19T14:23:56Z 2019-08-19T14:23:56Z 2019-08 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/156301565975855947/Does-Media-Stimulate-Reform-Efforts http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32296 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8984 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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MEDIA BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT BUSINESS REFORM REGULATION DOING BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT POLITICAL ACTION MEDIA COVERAGE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS FIRM ENTRY CORRUPTION PERCEPTION INDEX Ramalho, Rita Saltane, Valentina Does Media Stimulate Reform Efforts? |
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This paper investigates to what extent
media impacts political decisions. A viable practical
approach to test the relationship between mass media and
political actions is through the use of the World Bank’s
Doing Business data, specifically, by assessing local media
coverage of Doing Business and implementation of business
regulatory reforms. The tested hypothesis is that countries
with higher media coverage of Doing Business tend to carry
out more business regulatory reforms, assuming one- and
two-year lags between media coverage and reform
implementation. To achieve this objective, the study put
together a comprehensive data set that encompasses
country-specific local media coverage of the Doing Business
report in 190 economies. The study finds that local media
coverage of Doing Business has a significant influence on
regulators’ actions. First, the analysis shows that the
number of local media articles tends to increase the
probability of whether a country does any reform. Second,
countries with greater media coverage of Doing Business
indicators tend to have higher numbers of implemented reforms. |
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Ramalho, Rita Saltane, Valentina |
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Ramalho, Rita Saltane, Valentina |
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Ramalho, Rita |
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Does Media Stimulate Reform Efforts? |
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Does Media Stimulate Reform Efforts? |
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Does Media Stimulate Reform Efforts? |
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Does Media Stimulate Reform Efforts? |
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Does Media Stimulate Reform Efforts? |
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does media stimulate reform efforts? |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2019 |
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