Financial Development and Structure 1960-2010

Aruba, Afghanistan, Angola...and 192 more, 1960 - 2010

Reference ID

WLD_1960-2010_FDS_v02_M

DOI

https://doi.org/10.48529/7dk1-kn47

Producer(s)

Thorsten Beck and Asli Demirguc-Kunt (World Bank), Ross Eric Levine (Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota)

Collection(s)

Development Research Microdata Fragility, Conflict and Violence

Metadata

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Apr 01, 2011

Last modified

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Regulation (f_regu97)

Data file: request8095

Overview

Valid: 98

Invalid: 8

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1046

End: 1046

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Value	Cases
1	4	4.1%
2	33	33.7%
3	37	37.8%
4	21	21.4%
5	3	3.1%
Sysmiss	8

Description

Universe

1980-1995

Source of information

LLSV (1998b), using data from Economic Freedom of the World, 1975-1995.

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

Rating of regulation policies related to opening and keeping open a business. The scale is from 0 to 5, with higher scores meaning that regulations are straightforward and applied uniformly to all businesses and that regulations are less of a burden to business.

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