Governments can now pick the easiest reforms to pass

A new study looked at 3,590 regulatory reforms across 189 countries over 17 years. It found that reforms related to technology are much more likely to pass than administrative or legal changes, and that richer countries reform more often but with less individual impact.

Governments and international organizations have struggled to understand why some regulatory reforms succeed and others fail. This paper provides empirical data on what types of reforms actually get through the system. It means that governments looking to make changes now have a clearer path to success if they focus on technology-related rules.