China's Ownership Transformation This study sheds new light on the progress that China has made in enterprise restructuring and privatization and on the challenges that enterprises, investors, and governments are facing in the process. An important finding of the study is that among the various forms of enterprise restructuring, privatizations involving outside investors have had the strongest positive impact on firm performance.
China’s Emerging Private Enterprises: Prospects For The New Century Based on interviews and surveys in China, this publication takes stock of the evolution of the domestic private sector in China. It discusses constraints on private sector development and outlines an agenda for entrepreneurs, the government, and the financial sector in addressing these constraints.
Corporate Governance and Enterprise Reform in China This study evaluates short- and medium- term corporate governance issues impacting companies involved in ownership diversification in China. It examines problems associated with governance such as cost and framework design and makes recommendations concerning the many facets of corporate governance.
Key Barriers for Small Businesses in Georgia To identify key impediments to business development, IFC has completed Georgia's largest survey of the small and medium enterprise sector.
Taxation, export-import operations, permits, licensing, inspections and certification top the list of problems that hamper the business environment.
Scaling Up: Private Sector Models for Poverty Reduction In an effort to better understand and exhibit the role of the private sector in China, IFC, the World Bank, and the China Project Development Facility, in cooperation with the Chinese Ministry of Finance and local and provincial governments, reviewed some of the success stories in Sichuan and Zhejiang province. This publication highlights what participants saw on their field visits to private sector companies and other enterprises supporting private sector development.
