CMI (Chr. Michelsen Institute) Development Studies and Human Rights
 
 

U4 Brief

Business Climate Surveys: Experiences from Ghana, Mozambique, and South Africa

Thematic research group:
Public Sector Reform

Keywords:
corruption, anti-corruption, private sector

Geographical keywords:
Sub-Saharan Africa
Ghana, Mozambique, South Africa

Friedrich Kaufmann, Philip Madelung, Julius Spatz, Mattia Wegmann (2008)

Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Brief 2008:4) 4 p.

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Improving the Business and Investment Climate (BIC) has become an important topic in the international discourse on private sector development. Partner governments and donor organisations alike have started to focus more and more on systematically analysing and shaping a country's BIC.

[pdf] Business Climate Surveys: Experiences from Ghana, Mozambique, and South Africa

http://www.u4.no/themes/private-sector/main.cfm

Project/programme:

Anti-Corruption Resource Centre U4

Public Sector Reform
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