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Case Study. INCENTIVES FOR ENTERPRISES TO BECOME FORMAL IN MALAWI: GOVERNMENT PROJECT AND IMPACT EVALUATION Lynda Ndovie , BESTAP Malawi Francisco Campos, World Bank, Africa Region Gender Practice. Outline. Background Intervention by Ministry of Industry and Trade under BESTAP - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Global Workshop onDevelopment Impact Evaluation
in Finance and Private SectorRio de Janeiro, June 6-10, 2011
INCENTIVES FOR ENTERPRISES TO BECOME FORMAL IN MALAWI: GOVERNMENT PROJECT AND IMPACT EVALUATION
Lynda Ndovie, BESTAP MalawiFrancisco Campos, World Bank, Africa Region Gender Practice
Case Study
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Outline
Background Intervention by Ministry of Industry and Trade
under BESTAP What is the impact evaluation about? What
questions does it answer? Impact evaluation design Results from the pilot
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Background Informal sector represents 93% of the non-farm
small scale enterprises in Malawi.
The process of business registration is centralized in one city and manual.
It takes 39 days to become formal according to the 2011 Doing Business Report (18 days in Zambia). (1) Business registration cost $1.3 for a sole trader or partnership
and $8 for a limited liability but there are hidden costs like transport.
Becoming formal also involves (2) registering for taxes and (3) paying licenses at the City Assembly.
These 3 institutions have systems that do not speak with each other.
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3 main steps in becoming formal
(1) Business registration(2) Registration for taxes(3) City assembly license
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Intervention by BESTAP
The Ministry launched the Business Environment Strengthening Technical Assistance Project (BESTAP) to address some of the constraints faced by businesses.
Major objective: To improve ease of doing business processes in Malawi .
It has 4 main components:1.Strengthening property rights institutions2.Strengthening private sector development institutions3.Promoting access to finance4.Capacity building and Implementation support
One of the subcomponents under the first component is to improve the Business Registration Services at the Registrar’s General.
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Initiative at Registrar’s General
The main focus of the project is computerisation of the business registry including: System diagnostics and specification Information technology investment for registering a business Computerization of procedures, data processing and archiving Restructuring of the registries’ operations and procedures Staff training
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Situation before
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Progress so far
Preservation in electronic format of all manual historical records was completed by December 2010.
Procurement of hardware and software for the information system is being reviewed.
Technical staff at the registry have undergone attachments to the Registers of Scotland, Zambian Registry and the South African Business Registry.
The revised Business Registration Bill, which accomodates for the automatic system, has been submitted to parliament.
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Digitisation Process
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The Impact Evaluation The major objective of the IE is to assess whether
becoming formal improves enterprise performance.
Specifically the IE will answer the following questions:1. Does the benefits of business registration outweigh the costs?2. Are there differences between firms that only register their
business at the Registrar’s General versus firms that become fully formal?
3. Do both male and female-owned enterprises gain equally from registration?
4. Are the effects of registration heterogeneous on other dimensions?
5. Does helping to separate business from household money complement formality value?
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Treatment interventions
Two Interventions:1. Offer business registration (and for a subset of firms
registration for taxes) including help to filling-in forms, paying fee, taking forms to DRG, bringing business registration certificate back to entrepreneur.
2. Training on the benefits of separating business and household money coupled with an incentive to open a bank account in the name of the business.
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SamplingSample of eligible businesses (using a
screening criteria) in Lilongwe and Blantyre(3,000)
Costless Registration at
DRG(1,200)
Costless Registration at DRG and TPIN
(600)
Control group(1,200)
Training and
incentive to separate business money (600)
Business registration
INTERVENTION
Separate business
and HH money
No interventio
n(600)
Training and
incentive to separate business money (300)
No interventio
n(300)
Training and
incentive to separate business money (600)
No interventio
n(600)
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
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69%90%
26%
91%
46%
31%
9%
37%17%
0
40
80
120
160
Eligible Sampled for pilot Already MRA? Already CA? Assistance Accepted BRC offer
MRA offer
IE intervention pilot
Eligible
Not eligible
Sampledfor pilot No
NoBRC +MRA
BRC
NoYes
Yes Still deciding
Yes
Yes
No
Number of enterprises in each step of the IE pilot
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Global Workshop onDevelopment Impact Evaluation
in Finance and Private SectorRio de Janeiro, June 6-10, 2011
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