The following papers discuss and analyze issues that have been encountered frequently by FIAS in the course of its policy and institutional advisory work.
Documents are PDFs unless otherwise noted.

Special Economic Zones: Performance, Lessons Learned, and Implications for Zone Development
by Gokhan Akinci and James Crittle et. al. (April 2008)

Tracking Impacts of FIAS Assistance on Latvian Business Climate
SME Department (May 2007)

Review of the Dutch Administrative Burden Reduction Programme
by Peter Ladegaard with the Doing Business team (March 2007)

Survey of Land and Real Estate Transactions in the Russian Federation: Statistical Analysis of Selected Hypotheses
by J. Coolidge and G. Kisunko (January 2007)

Can Sub-Saharan Africa Leap into Global Network Trade?
by Uma Subramanian and Matthias Matthijs (January 2007)

Investment Promotion Agency Performance Review 2006: Providing Information to Investors
Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) (October 2006)

Industry Level Analysis: The Way to Identify the Binding Constraints to Economic Growth
by V. Palmade (April 2005)

Competing for FDI: Inside the operations of four national investment promotion agencies
A MIGA-FIAS Research Project (2005)

CSR in the Tourism Industry? The Status of and Potential for Certification, Codes of Conduct and Guidelines
by Rachel Dodds & Marion Joppe (June 2005)

Establishing CSR Drivers in Agribusiness
by Anne Tallontire & Peter Greenhalgh (August 2005)

Does a Country Need a Promotion Agency to Attract Foreign Direct Investment?
by J. Morisset (April 2003)

Shedding New Light on Africa's Investment Opportunities
by David Bridgman, Mansour Kane, Federica Dal Bono, & Kenneth Kwaku (June 2003)
Preliminary Results of the FIAS Census on IPAs
by A. Miroux and K. Andrews Johnson (May 2002)

Administrative Barriers to Foreign Investment in Developing Countries
by J. Morisset and O. Lumenga Neso (May 2002)

Do "One Stop Shops" Work?
by F. Sader (March 2002)

Foreign Direct Investment Survey
by A Study Conducted by the Multilateral Investment Guartantee Agency with the Assistance of Deloitte & Toutche LLP (January 2002)

Foreign Direct Investment and Poverty Reduction
by M. Klein, C. Aaron, and B. Hadjimichael (June 2001)