Improving the Business Enabling Environment

The objective of our work is to promote reforms that support private sector development. Drawing on our knowledge of best practice, we provide advisory services to clients in the public and private sectors in developing countries, and support IFC/World Bank operational units with their reform efforts. Depending on the specific priorities and needs of the local private sector, we target the most critical areas affecting local businesses, such as burdensome business regulations, and bring small businesses into the public-private dialogue.

We aim to be a knowledge center in the area of implementing business environment reforms. We collect, summarize, and analyze various data on the successes and failures of business environment reform efforts, and develop practical guides for designing and implementing these reforms. We are currently focusing on business registration, business licensing, business inspections, municipal simplification, corporate tax administration, export/import procedures, building the capacity of business membership organizations, and alternative dispute resolution.

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