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Hundreds of reports are available for download. Hard copies of some of these can be purchased online.
Economy & Regional Profiles
Download reports on 183 economies and 14 regions covered by Doing Business. Reports are in PDF format and approximately 400KB in size.
Doing Business Reports
Doing Business 2010 - Overview (PDF, 144KB)
Doing Business 2009 - (more info; PDF, 4.5MB)
Doing Business 2008 - (more info; PDF, 4.3 MB)
Doing Business 2007 - How to Reform (PDF, 3.5MB)
Doing Business 2006 - Creating Jobs (PDF, 2.7MB)
Doing Business 2005 - Removing Obstacles to Growth (PDF, 2.1MB)
Doing Business 2004 - Understanding Regulations (PDF, 3.1MB)
In other languages:
Doing Business 2009 - Arabic (PDF, 8.8MB), French (PDF, 5.6MB), and Spanish (PDF, 4.8MB)
Doing Business 2008 - Arabic (PDF, 10.1MB), French (PDF, 1.6MB), Portuguese (PDF, 1.4MB), and Spanish (PDF, 5.4MB)
Doing Business 2007 - French (PDF, 3.1MB), Portuguese (PDF, 3.3MB), and Spanish (PDF, 2.8MB)
Subnational Reports
Doing Business in India 2009 (more info; PDF, 3.2MB)
Doing Business in Veneto 2009 (more info; PDF, 3.2MB)
Doing Business in Mexico 2009 (more info; PDF, 2.9MB - Spanish)
Doing Business in the Philippines 2008 (more info; PDF, 2.3MB)
Doing Business in South East Europe 2008 (more info; PDF, 2.3MB)
Doing Business in Small Island Developing States 2008 (more info; PDF, 3.2MB)
Doing Business in Nigeria 2008 (more info; PDF, 2.0MB)
Doing Business in China 2008 (more info; Part I - PDF, 4.23MB, Part II - PDF, 4.17MB)
Doing Business in Colombia 2008 (more info; PDF, 2.2MB)
Doing Business in Egypt 2008 (more info; PDF, 2.2MB)
Doing Business in Morocco 2008 (more info; PDF, 1.3MB - French)
Doing Business in Mexico 2007 (more info; PDF, 1.2MB)
Doing Business in South Asia 2007 (more info; PDF, 2MB)
Doing Business in Brazil 2006 (more info; PDF, 1.2MB)
Doing Business in Mexico 2006 (PDF, 701KB)
Doing Business Smart Lessons 2007
Egypt: Boosting Trade
Egypt: How Efficiently is Capital Created? Evidence from Property Registration Reform
Ghana: Establishment of the Commercial Court
Italy: Modernizing Italy's Bankruptcy Law
Poland: Taking on the Bailiff Monopoly
Portugal: One-Stop Shopping
Saudi Arabia: Eliminating Minimum Capital Requirement and Facilitating Business Start-up
Tonga: Electronic Case Management and Mediation - Drastic Improvement for the Courts
Reformers' Club Case Studies
Celebrating Reform 2009 case study: Madagascar Reaps the Benefits of Trade Reform
Celebrating Reform 2009 case study: Cross-border trading reforms in post-war Serbia
Celebrating Reform 2009 case study: Trinidad and Tobago brought credit reform to the Caribbean
Celebrating Reform 2009 case study: China improves access to credit for small and medium enterprises
Celebrating Reform 2009 case study: Albania seizes the opportunity for effective legal reforms
Celebrating Reform 2009 case study: How Colombia overcame a burdensome building permit process
Celebrating Reform 2008 -- 16 new case studies (more info; PDF, 3.6MB)
Celebrating Reform 2007 -- 8 case studies (more info; PDF, 963KB)
Special Reports
New! Paying Taxes 2010: The Global Picture (more info; PDF, 791KB)
New! Doing Business in the Arab World 2010 (more info; PDF, 691KB)
Getting Electricity - A pilot indicator set from the Doing Business project (more info, PDF, 257KB)
Doing Business in Small Island Developing States 2009 (more info; PDF, 3.4MB)
Doing Business in the Arab World 2009 (more info; PDF, 3.4MB)
Paying Taxes 2009: The Global Picture (more info; PDF, 580KB)
Doing Business in Landlocked Economies (more info; PDF, 3.5MB)
Doing Business: Women in Africa (more info; PDF, 4.2MB)
Paying Taxes 2008: The Global Picture (more info; PDF, 608KB)
Paying Taxes 2007: The Global Picture (more info; PDF, 617KB)
Review of the Dutch Administration Burden Reduction Programme (PDF, 168KB)
Trading on Time: Reforms in Developing Countries Can Boost Exports (more info; PDF, 109KB)