The Firms Speak: What the World Business Environment Survey Tells Us about Constraints on Private Sector Development
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- Geeta Batra & Daniel Kaufmann & Andrew H. W. Stone, 2004. "The Firms Speak: What the World Business Environment Survey Tells Us about Constraints on Private Sector Development," Microeconomics 0405004, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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- L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation
- O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
- L20 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - General
- K42 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
- M13 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - New Firms; Startups
- P10 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - General
- M21 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Economics - - - Business Economics
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