What's New?
Recent updates to World Bank Group financial and private sector development websites are highlighted below. Direct links to these sites are provided to the right.
- Doing Business in India: A new report finds it is now easier to start and operate a business in India compared to three years ago. Doing Business in India 2009 shows how government regulations and practices enhance or restrain business activity in 17 cities including some of India’s largest. The report records significant reforms at the national, state and municipal levels of government as 14 cities reformed in at least one area benchmarked over the last three years. Learn more...
Download report (PDF, 3.2MB)
Press release: English (PDF, 98KB)
- Global Investment Promotion Benchmarking 2009: The publication surveys the performance of national and subnational Investment Promotion Intermediaries in 181 countries. The report assesses the effectiveness of their facilitation services assisting a potential foreign investor. The report finds that over 70% of these intermediaries may be missing foreign investment leads.
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- Remittances Prices Worldwide: This website is now available in French, Italian and Spanish! Discover the cost of sending and receiving small amounts of money from one country to another. The money received is an important source of family (and national) income in many developing economies, representing in some cases a very relevant percentage of the GDP of the receiving countries.
- Business Planet: Entrepreneurship data from 70 countries now available
- Enterprise Surveys: Updated data coverage for 23 Eastern Europe and Central Asia countries, plus Afghanistan
- Doing Business in Veneto: The report examine the city of Padua, Italy based on the Doing Business indicators
- Public Policy Journal: Privatization Trends: A record year for initial public offerings in 2007
- Paper: The unfolding crisis - Implications for financial systems and their oversight (PDF, 104KB)
- Doing Business 2009: The full French (PDF, 5.5MB) and Spanish (PDF,4.6MB) reports are avialable for download
- Remittance Prices Worldwide: Provides data on 14 sending and 72 receiving countries
