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New toolkit: Strategies and options for the design of a small business tax regime
Doing Business law library: More than 460 new laws added; coverage now includes privacy laws
Doing Business reforms: Electronic case management and mediation system improves court performance
Doing Business: A Response to "Is Doing Business Damaging Business?"
Public Policy Journal: Privatization Trends: A Record Year in 2006
Free download: The entire "Doing Business 2008" report is now available for download!
Enterprise Surveys: New data on women's entrepreneurship and economic participation in the labor force
New research: The Effect of Corporate Taxes on Investment and Entrepreneurship
Doing Business reforms: New law helps modernize Bhutan's labor market
Doing Business reforms: Egyptian ministry reduces cost, improves quality of property registration system
New research: "Measuring the Ease of Enterprise" looks at how to use the best indicators
Enterprise Surveys: BangladeshGhana, and Ethiopia added to the Enterprise Surveys database   
Doing Business reforms: Read about Portugal's "one-stop shop" for creating companies
Doing Business reforms: Minister talks about taking on the Bailiff Monopoly in Poland
Doing Business reports: Doing Business goes subnational
Doing Business topics: Paying Taxes 2008 - The Global Picture" looks at global corporate tax burdens
Doing Business topics: Infrastructure and Transparency anticipated in next year's report 
Doing Business reforms: Minister outlines how Egypt pushed through sweeping trade reforms
Doing Business reforms: Saudi regulator discusses the elimination of start-up capital requirements
Doing Business research: Initiative to identify legal and regulatory barriers facing businesswomen
Enterprise Surveys: Survey data for Dominican Rep, Jordan, Lao PDR, Malaysia, and West Bank & Gaza
Private Participation in Infrastructure: 2006 dataset now available for download 
Public Policy Journal: Latest issue on entrepreneurship and how to promote it
Book launch: Contracting for public services: Output-based aid and its applications