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Business licensing is a key component of any country’s business environment because government licenses are often required to set up business activities and conduct operations. Licenses and other forms of ex-ante approvals typically impose on businesses a range of conditions and obligations while providing certain rights. If appropriately implemented, licenses can help regulators address market failures, monitor businesses that may pose risks to public goods, restrict entry to businesses failing to meet minimum regulatory standards, and allow the controlled use of valuable and scarce community resources.
A girl who is married before reaching the age of majority loses the ability to make decisions before she can legally make them for herself. In Afghanistan, where the age of majority is 18, girls can get married at 16, or as early as 15 with their fat...
Laws evolve as societies do. To be relevant and effective, laws have to keep pace with global changes and with changes within the particular societies to which they apply. Investment laws are no exception. This “Handbook on Investment Law,&rdqu...
Family law—also called personal status law—is one of the central institutions of gender. It molds social identities and distributes rights and responsibilities, forging relations of power between men and women, parents and children, broth...
The 1975 treaty that founded ECOWAS envisioned an international tribunal. But governments did not agree to create a community court until 1991, when they adopted a protocol that limited the court‘s jurisdiction to interstate disputes concerning...
This paper offers for the first time a global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it affects women’s economic opportunity and charts the evolution of legal inequalities over five decades. Using the World Bank’s newly extended W...
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