FIAS: The Investment Climate Advisory Service

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FIAS fiscal year 2009 Annual Report just released. FIAS focused its efforts on helping clients achieve significant investment climate reforms. Through its technical assistance, FIAS supported the achievement of 224 concrete results in fiscal year 2009.
FIAS also contributed to 57 Doing Business reforms in 21 countries as measured by the 2010 edition of the Doing Business report Learn more >

Featured Content

In Rwanda, Entrepreneurs are in Business in Two Steps and 24 Hours
With continued technical support from Investment Climate Advisory Services of the World Bank Group, the investment climate reform program in Rwanda has been to simplify procedures and to cut costs and time requirements that burden businesses and the administration. Read more >

Recent Blog Posts

Sometimes simple is really best
posted on October 27, 2009 by Alan Johnson
I’m always interested in situations where tools that are aimed at developing countries are applied to their high income counterparts.

China vs. India: Which is better for Doing Business?
posted on September 14, 2009 by Peter Kusek
Some of us might not expect is to find countries such as Georgia, Saudi Arabia or Mauritius among the top 20 in the seventh annual Doing Business report for 2010.

Agricultural FDI: Global land grab or good business?
posted on August 31, 2009 by Kusi Hornberger
Despite the recent downturn in global FDI flows and predictions of gloomier times to come for cross border investment flows, there has been a recent increase in FDI by wealthy investors from resource poor countries.