FIAS: The Investment Climate Advisory Service

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How Many Stops in a One-Stop Shop? A Review of Recent Developments in Business Registration. The study provides practical guidance in developing and operating one stop shops. Best practices are also presented through six case studies - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Burkina Faso, Columbia and Egypt. Learn more >

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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.