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The 2008 World Bank Group Entrepreneurship Survey (WBGES) continues to illustrate the importance of entrepreneurship for the dynamism of the modern economy. In its third year, the WBGES measures entrepreneurial activity in over 100 developing and industrial countries around the world over the eight year period 2000-2007. The WBGES provides empirical evidence that a good regulatory environment can increase entrepreneurial activity in developing countries. New data collected on business registry modernization suggests that automation can greatly reduce the barriers to starting a business and encourage entrepreneurial activity. This joint effort by the World Bank Development Research Group, the IFC, and the Kauffman Foundation is the most comprehensive dataset on cross-country firm entry data available today.
  
| | Data |   | Related Reports | The 2008 World Bank Group Entrepreneurship Survey measures entrepreneurial activity in over 100 developing and industrial countries over the period 2000-07. The database includes cross-country, time-series data on the number of total and newly registered businesses, collected directly from registrar of companies in our 100 countries around the world. In its third year, this survey incorporates improvements in methodology, and expanded participation from countries covered, allowing for greater cross-border compatibility of data compared with earlier surveys. New information is also collected on business registrations, such as filing requirements, and electronic registration and data storage. |     | Entrepreneurship and firm formation across countries 
L. Klapper, R. Amit, M.Guillen, J. Quesada in in International Differences in Entrepreneurship, J. Lerner and A. Schoar (eds.) National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge. (Forthcoming) Entrepreneurship: New Data on Business Creation and How to Promote itÂ
Leora Klapper and Juan Manuel Quesada Delgado
Source: Viewpoint, World Bank's Financial Development Department Entrepreneurship: How Much Does the Business Environment Matter?Â
Leora Klapper
Source: Viewpoint, World Bank's Financial Development Department Barriers to Entrepreneurship
L. Klapper, L. Laeven, R. Rajan.Â
Source: World BankPolicy Research Working Paper, November, 2004. Also published in Journal of Financial Economics 82:3, 2006. |
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    | | Related research and conferences: | - "Entrepreneurship and firm formation across countries"Â
L. Klapper, R. Amit, M.Guillen, J. Quesada in in International Differences in Entrepreneurship, J. Lerner and A. Schoar (eds.) National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge. (Forthcoming). - "License to sell: the effect of business registration reform on entrepreneurial activity in Mexico."
M. Bruhn, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4538, February 2008. - "Experimental Evidence on Returns to Capital and Access to Finance in Mexico", D. McKenzie and C. Woodruff, World Bank Economic Review, forthcoming 2009.
- "Returns to capital: Results from a randomized experiment", S. de Mel, D. McKenzie, and C. Woodruff, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 123(4): 1329-72, 2008
- "Who are the Microenterprise Owners?: Evidence from Sri Lanka on Tokman v. de Soto", S. de Mel, D. McKenzie, and C. Woodruff, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4635, 2008.
- "What does 'Entrepreneurship' Data Really Show?"
Z. Acs, S. Desai, L. Klapper. World Bank, September 2008. Also published in Small Business Economics 32(3) 2008. - "The Regulation of Entry"
S. Djankov et al., World Bank, June, 2001. Also published in Quarterly Journal of Economics 117(1): pp. 1-37, February 2002
| | Workshop: Entrepreneurship and Development     April 24, 2007   |   Agenda | | Presentations: | | | Additional resources: | |
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