Archives
These items were previously featured on the Financial and Private Sector Development home page.
Remittances Prices Worldwide: This website is now available in French, Italian and Spanish - Enterprise Surveys: Updated coverage of Pakistan; Nepal covered for first time
- Report: Global Investment Promotion Benchmarking 2009
- 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
- Enterprise Surveys: Updated data for Côte d'Ivoire, Madagascar, and Mauritius
- Doing Business in Mexico: The subnational report compares business regulations across 31 Mexican states
- Doing Business reports: New report on the Arab World, Small Island Developing States and Paying Taxes
- Virtual Launch of the Doing Business 2009: Watch the second annual "virtual release" on Second Life
- Enterprise Surveys: New data for Cambodia, Egypt, Kenya, Thailand, & added coverage for Mozambique, Nigeria
- Enterprise Surveys: Updated data coverage for Belarus, Georgia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan
- Doing Business five years of reforms: More regulatory reforms were recorded worldwide
- Doing Business Profiles: Profiles of 181 economies and 13 regions are available for download!
- Doing Business report: How seven African women entrepreneurs overcame obstacles to succeed in business
- Doing Business in Small Island Developing States: The report finds that small islands are performing well
- New research: Taking the Measure of Law: The Case of the Doing Business Project
- Public Policy Journal: Doing Privatization Right: What It Takes to Maximize Gains in Low-Income Countries
- Enterprise Surveys: New research explores business impact of civil and common law
- New research: Highway improvement program in India shows widespread benefit
- Doing Business methodologies: Now available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish
- Public Policy Journal: How the most successful reformers organized themselves
- New research: What makes an entrepreneur?
- 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: 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: Bangladesh, Ghana, 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
