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DBNews is a quarterly update to share the latest DB-related news and to provide
a platform for exchanging information and ideas among the ever-growing community
of DB contributors across the world.
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A note from the Editorial Team: The Journey Begins
It is our great pleasure to present the first edition of the Doing Business Newsletter.
As the editorial team of this Newsletter, we would like to welcome all our readers and contributors,
many of whom we know personally, and many others we hope to meet sometime soon.
DBNews has a very simple goal: Our team truly appreciates the generous contributions
from you our local partners (business consultants, lawyers, accountants, freight
forwarders, architects and public officials), and we’d like to show it. We could
not have accomplished all that we have without your assistance and we certainly
cannot continue successfully without it.
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Road Shows: Come See the Doing Business Team in Action
Starting today, Doing Business will be hosting a number of Road Shows and Events.
It’s our pleasure to invite you to join us in any Road Show that is taking place
in your country.
Please click here
for more details.
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Case Study: Colombia Construction Permit Reforms
In 1995, Colombia introduced a new system that moved the administration of building
permits out of the state-run Planning Office into the private domain. Private professionals
called Urban Curators (Curadores Urbanos) became responsible for the complete and
timely review of building permit applications. By 1996, the system of private Urban
Curators was up and running. Fourteen years after its initial implementation, the
system’s impact on the construction process is palpable.
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to read the full case study.
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More News
The latest subnational report, Doing Business in India 2009, launched in June 2009
in New Delhi, shows how government regulations and practices enhance or restrain
business activity in 17 cities and states. More than 570 private and public sector
experts contributed to this study that was featured on the BBC World News and in
150 newspaper articles.
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Feedback: We Want to Hear Your Stories!
If you have any feedback you would like to share with us, suggestions
on the survey process, contributions to the Doing Business blog, giving an interview,
please contact us at DBNews@worldbank.org.
To find out more about your fellow contributors, please click here.
If you happen to be in Washington DC please drop by and
meet the team! We would be delighted to meet with you and introduce you to the DB team.
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What's New in Doing Business 2010?
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Worldwide the pace of reform picked up to reach a new record: Despite the many challenges,
in 2008/09 more governments implemented regulatory reforms aimed at making it easier
to do business than in any year since 2004, when Doing Business started to track
reforms through its indicators. Doing Business 2010 recorded 287 reforms in 131 economies
between June 2008 and May 2009, 20% more than in the year before. At least 60% of
economies reformed in every region.
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Contributor Spotlight
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"I am content with the latest reforms in Rwanda and sincerely hope that the private
sector can take advantage of them to grow."
Richard Mugisha (Founding Manager of Trust Law Chambers, Rwanda)
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