Archives
These items were previously featured on the Doing Business home page.
Report on women entrepreneurs: - How seven African women overcame obstacles to succeed in business
- Doing Business in Small Island Developing States:
- The report finds that Small Islands are performing well
- Research:
- Estimating the impact of delays on international trade (final version of paper)
- Doing Business in China:
- Data from 26 provincial capitals and 4 centrally administered municipalities
- Local partner recognized:
- Law firm in Sierra Leone recognized for its committment to Doing Business Project
- Doing Business workshop:
- Leveling the playing field for women
- Doing Business methodologies:
- Now available in Arabic, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish
- New research:
- What makes an entrepreneur?
- New research:
- Controlling for income, "The Causes of Civil War" finds that institutions play major role
- Law library expanded:
- More than 460 new laws added; coverage now includes privacy laws
- Reform in Tonga:
- Electronic case management and mediation system improves court performance
- Djankov responds to Arrunada:
- A Response to "Is Doing Business Damaging Business?"
- New research:
- The Effect of Corporate Taxes on Investment and Entrepreneurship
- Reform in Egypt:
- Ministry of Investment reduces cost, improves quality of property registration system
- Free download:
- The entire "Doing Business 2008" report is now available for download!
- New research:
- "Measuring the Ease of Enterprise" looks at how to use the best indicators
- Women entrepreneurs:
- New initiative to identify legal and regulatory barriers facing businesswomen
- Reform in Italy:
- Learn why it is difficult to reform bankruptcy laws in Italy
- Reform in Ghana:
- Author discusses establishment of commercial court
- Reform in Portugal:
- Read about country's "one-stop shop" for creating companies
- Reform in Poland:
- Minister talks about taking on the Bailiff Monopoly
- New topic added:
- Doing Business works to include Infrastructure in next year's report
- Reform in Egypt:
- Minister outlines how country pushed through sweeping trade reforms
- Reform in Saudi Arabia:
- Saudi regulator discusses the elimination of start-up capital requirements
- Research using Doing Business:
- List of academic citations of the Doing Business background papers