The report features a brief review of the Danish government’s 2001–2010 administrative burden reduction program. Over the last few years, Denmark has developed and successfully tested a number of innovative regulatory reform tools, such as the Standard Cost Model and the "Burden Hunter" method. Many of these tools are equally relevant to transition and developing economies, if well adapted.
The problem of licenses, permits, authorizations, certification requirements, and official approvals of all sorts has been a notorious rat's nest for reformers since Hernando De Soto first attempted it in Peru in the 1980s. Given the uncertain magnitude, size, shape, mass and density of the "rat's nest", we may need more than one way to measure it. One such measurement tool is a business survey dedicated specifically to this issue, which has been piloted in conjunction with BOp projects in three countries: Bosnia, Serbia and Madagascar.
Qu’est-ce que le Botswana, le Cap-Vert, la Malaisie, Maurice et Taïwan (Chine) ont-ils en commun ? Ces pays appartiennent au groupe exclusif d’économies ayant réussi à sortir de la pauvreté en moins de 30 ans. Ils ont aussi en commun d’avoir commencé par prendre appui sur une petite équipe dédiée au pilotage des réformes à accomplir. Ces équipes ont bénéficié de compétences techniques du plus haut niveau, de l’accès direct au sommet de l’État et d’un important budget de développement. C’est cette combinaison de compétences, d’accès et de ressources qui leur a donné les moyens de mener à bien d’ambitieux programmes de réforme malgré les intérêts partisans et les résistances administratives.
What do Botswana, Cape Verde, Malaysia, Mauritius, and Taiwan (China) have in common? They belong to an exclusive group of economies that grew out of poverty in less than 30 years. They also initially relied on a small, dedicated team of experts to get the job done. These teams brought to bear world-class skills along with direct access to the top level of government and a large development budget. That combination of skills, access, and resources gave them the clout to steer an ambitious reform agenda through vested
interests and layers of government.
This paper tracks the process through which FIAS, the investment climate advisory service of the World Bank Group advised the government of Latvia from 1998 to 2004 on ways to improve the business environment, achieve higher rates of economic growth, and thereby alleviate poverty.
The approach used reflects quick analysis undertaken during the course of an 11-day mission to provide key policymakers with practical reform options to consider in improving Nepal’s investment climate.
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