Izvorni znanstveni članak
https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2020.1831942
The doing business ranking and the design of public policies: the effect of regional dynamics
João Estevão
orcid.org/0000-0002-5938-434X
José Dias Lopes
orcid.org/0000-0002-8862-6600
Daniela Penela
Sažetak
The challenge of creating a favourable business environment has
motivated academics, international institutions and policy makers.
An initiative that has recently been established to facilitate this
path has involved the creation of ordered lists that classify the
environment around companies and the ease of doing business.
The World Bank’s DB measure is one such ranking system. This
type of ranking has supported much research and many political
decision-making processes. However, it is not common in these
analyses to consider regional dynamics and how the results of
such rankings and investigations should be interpreted considering regional specificities. The objective of this study is to evaluate
the business environment and the production of wealth while
considering the impacts of these regional dynamics. In particular,
we study whether the DB sub-indicators are equally important
regardless of a region’s level of economic development. The
results are clear with evident configurations of dominant sub-indicators that are distinct in three regions. Our results show us that
these rankings, and the design of public policies based on them,
should consider regional specificities, thus refuting the idea that
the design of public policies to improve the framework for companies should follow a "one fits all" intervention model.
Ključne riječi
The doing business; fsQCA; Africa; Latin America; OECD; regional dynamics
Hrčak ID:
301367
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.12.2021.
Posjeta: 173 *