Business Environment
A healthy business environment is essential for growth and poverty reduction. Business environment reform is needed where inappropriate regulation, excessive taxation, lack of fair competition, lack of voice and an unstable policy environment restrict investment and the development of markets, stifle entrepreneurship and force many businesses to operate in the informal economy. A hostile business environment weighs particularly heavily on small and informal enterprises, which comprise the biggest part of the businesses in most developing economies. |
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Supporting Business Environment Reform - Practical Guidance for Development Agencies 2008 Author: DCED
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The Role and Impact of Radio in Reforming the Rural Business Environment in Africa October 2007 Author: Gavin Anderson, David Elliott This M4P case study is based on research aimed to understand the potential role of radio, and mass media more generally, in business environment reform processes and to understand the potential impact of radio at both policy and enterprise levels. Uganda was chosen as a case study because of its liberalized and diverse media. By analysing successful examples, the paper endeavours to understand the characteristics of success: what makes media effective in impacting on business policy, legislation and regulation and how donors can intervene to enhance the role of mass media in the business environment.
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Improving the environment for small businesses in Indonesia and Russia: Experiences from Swisscontac November 2006 Author: David Elliott, Rob Hitchins, Marianne Sulzer This M4P case study examines Swisscontact’s experience in stimulating a more conducive environment for small businesses in Indonesia and Russia. Learning from experience, Swisscontact has sought a departure from conventional approaches to business environment reform; in doing so, it has intervened in a “systemic” way, consistent with the making markets work for the poor (M4P) approach.
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Promoting the Business and Investment Climate November 2005 Author: Sonja Kurz and Alena Fröde This document contains 11 case studies from GTZ experience from the Philippines, Ghana and the South African Development Community, as well as a wide variety of topics such as designing local business environment reform programs, human resource development for a market economy, measuring the effect of a national economy promotion program, conducting a regional business climate survey, how a business membership organization can contribute to improving the business environment and eGovernment to improve the local business environment.
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