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PSD Blog - The World Bank's Private Sector Development Blog
http://psdblog.worldbank.org/
The World Bank Group's first venture into the blogosphere. An intersection of development theory, economics and the private sector.
- Added on: Aug 10th, 2005
- Country: United States
- Language: English
Recent Posts
What inspires reform (besides Doing Business)?
Yesterday I discussed the launch of the latest Doing Business sub-report, which focuses on the ease of paying taxes. This is a laudable effort- paying taxes is painful enough to begin with, why make it more difficult than necessary? Doing...
Financial Paradigms: What Do They Suggest about Regulatory Reform?
Editor's note: Augusto de la Torre is chief economist, and Alain Ize a consultant, in the Latin America and the Caribbean Region of the World Bank. This is the 10th in a series of policy briefs on the crisis—assessing the policy responses, shed...
Paying Taxes 2010-The global picture
The latest publication of the Doing Business franchise is out: Paying Taxes 2010-The global picture. The study measures tax systems from the point of view of a domestic company complying with the different tax laws and regulations in each economy. Th...
Weekend Reading
Regulatory failure, special interests, and financial sector lobbying: European Union edition. Negative interest rates on T-bills: This time is different. "The fact that oil is trading at $80 a barrel in this climate should tell you that it is t...
The Curious Indian Entrepreneur
I attended a session from yesterday's Entrepreneurship and Growth Conference on "Indian Entrepreneurial Success in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom". RAND corporation's Krishna B Kumar ...
Today in Capital Controls
Yesterday I suggested that emerging market economies, rather than the United States, were better poised to criticize China's currency policy. It looks like, rather than criticizing China's policy, many are simply trying replicate ...
