Miriam Bruhn

World Bank

Miriam Bruhn is a Senior Economist in the Finance and Private Sector Development Team of the Development Research Group at the World Bank. Her research interests include the effect of regulatory reform on entrepreneurial activity, the informal sector, micro and small enterprises, financial literacy, and the relationship between institutions and economic development. She holds a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BA in Economics from Yale University.

Is there a policy rationale for actively trying to encourage small firms to formalise? In the last two decades, hundreds of regulatory reforms have been implemented in countries across the world with the primary objective of making it easier to formally register a business.

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Miriam Bruhn

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Entry Regulation and the Formalization of Microenterprises in Developing Countries