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Improving the Business Enabling Environment

A vibrant private sector—with firms investing, creating jobs, and increasing productivity—promotes growth and expands opportunities for poor people. Doing more to improve business regulations and help entrepreneurs is therefore key in the fight against poverty.

Simplifying municipal business regulations is one of the primary ways in which the IFC Office for Advisory Services in Latin America and the Caribbean is working to improve the business environment. The office’s program offerings in this area include:

The office teams with governments, civil society, and private firms to ensure that reforms are sustainable and to build capacity for continued improvements. For more information, download the complete brochure (PDF in English, Spanish, and Portuguese).

PROJECTCOUNTRYDESCRIPTION
National Plan for Simplifying Business Regulations [pdf]PeruPromoting public-private dialogue to foster and coordinate efforts for simplifying municipal business regulations across the country
National Guide of Business Procedures [pdf]BoliviaDeveloping an on-line guide that maps out, step-by-step, the protocol for completing 140 regulatory procedures from 13 ministries (www.tramites.gov.bo)
National Guide of Business Procedures [pdf]ColombiaCreating an on-line resource that unifies and simplifies the procedures for formalizing a business across the country, enabling rapid and efficient on-line registration
Simplifying Inspection Procedures [pdf]ColombiaImproving the business environment by reforming procedures for business inspections carried out by the Municipality of Bogotá
Simplifying Municipal Business Regulations in Masaya, Granada and Leon [pdf]NicaraguaSimplifying municipal procedures for obtaining operating licenses
Simplifying Municipal Business Regulations in Tarija, Trinidad and Montero [pdf]BoliviaSimplifying municipal procedures for obtaining operating licenses
Simplifying Municipal Business Regulations in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula [pdf]HondurasSimplifying municipal procedures for obtaining operating licenses
Simplifying Municipal Business Regulations in the Metropolitan Municipality of Lima [pdf]PeruSimplifying municipal procedures for obtaining operating licenses and construction permits
Toolkit for Simplifying Municipal Business Regulations [pdf]RegionalDeveloping a set of resources to enable local consultants and civil servants to design and implement reforms successfully
Municipal Scorecard for Latin America and the Caribbean - 2006 [pdf]RegionalMeasuring the regulatory burden for businesses at the municipal level
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