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Governability, when addressed in terms of globalization, can be referred to in both ways, governability in terms of government and governability in terms of countries, or governability of governments, so to speak. Let us discuss how this governability affects the other two variables—globalization and competitiveness.

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    The World Bank’s yearly Doing Business report assesses the ease of doing business through an meant to measure regulations directly affecting businesses and does not directly measure more general conditions such as a nation’s proximity to large markets, quality of infrastructure , inflation , or crime.

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Ernst, R., Haar, J. (2019). Governability. In: Globalization, Competitiveness, and Governability. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17516-0_4

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