The Impact of Expanding Simplified Start-up Procedures to More Remote Areas : The Minas Facil Expresso Program

Bruhn, Miriam; McKenzie, David

The Impact of Expanding Simplified Start-up Procedures to More Remote Areas : The Minas Facil Expresso Program

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This note shows how the rich administrative data collected by many governments can be used to evaluate a policy reform, and provides an example where impact evaluation reveals that a policy didn t work as well as intended.

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“Bruhn, Miriam; McKenzie, David. 2013. The Impact of Expanding Simplified Start-up Procedures to More Remote Areas : The Minas Facil Expresso Program. Finance & PSD Impact;No. 22. World Bank, Washington, DC. © World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/17031 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”

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