Documents et rapports
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Understanding and improving data on entrepreneurship and active companies (anglais)
Over the past several years, there has been a growing interest in reforms to improve company registries in developing and transition countries, with a major focus on legal and institutional reforms. In...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 46182 Date du document: 1 juin 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Coolidge,Jacqueline,Hornberger,Kusisami,Luttikhuizen,Ronald Petrus Maria
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South Africa - Tax compliance costs for small businesses : web-survey of tax practitioners provincial data analysis (anglais)
In many developing countries (both poor and middle-income), business owners complain that tax compliance costs (i.e. cost of preparing, handling, and submitting required tax forms to the country's tax...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 46178 Date du document: 1 juin 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Coolidge,Jacqueline,Ilic,Domagoj,Kisunko,Gregory
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Special economic zone : performance, lessons learned, and implication for zone development (anglais)
This study analyzes the major development trends in terms of zone configuration, ownership, development, management, and regulation approaches, and identifies good practices. It evaluates the overall economic...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 45869 Date du document: 1 avril 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Akinci, Gokhan, Crittle, James
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Competitiveness and corporate social responsibility in the Jordanian apparel industry : a component of IFC-advisory services licensing and inspection program (anglais)
The Jordan textile and apparel industry is a transient and fast-growing industry, which has become heavily reliant on migrant workers. In May 2006, a report was released by the US-Based Non Governmental...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 42811 Date du document: 1 janvier 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Improving the business environment in Latvia : the impact of FIAS assistance (anglais)
This paper tracks the process through which FIAS, the investment climate advisory service of the World Bank Group advised the government of Latvia from 1998 to 2004 on ways to improve the business environment...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 41920 Date du document: 1 janvier 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Coolidge, Jaqueline,Grava,Lars Nikolajs,Liepina,Sanda
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Attracting investment to South East Europe : survey of FDI trends and investor perceptions (anglais)
This report presents the results and implications of a survey of foreign business executives on investment opportunities and challenges of South East Europe (SEE). The region is increasingly seen as a...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 46177 Date du document: 1 novembre 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Moving toward competitiveness : a value chain approach (anglais)
Developing countries face tremendous opportunities for economic growth given economic liberalization worldwide, and rapid advancement and application of information and communications technologies. However...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 46993 Date du document: 1 août 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Subramanian,Uma
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Competition policy and promotion of investment, economic growth and poverty alleviation in least developed countries (anglais)
This paper aims to answer the persistent challenge that faces the governments of least-developed countries as well as policy advisors at the Bretton Woods Institutions, the United Nations, and aid agencies:...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 41334 Date du document: 1 janvier 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Khemani, R.S.
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Sector study of the effective tax burden : Lesotho (anglais)
The purpose of this sector study of the effective tax burden in Lesotho is to investigate whether the five key sectors in the economy (i.e. agriculture, mining, manufacturing, tourism and financial services)...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 38023 Date du document: 1 juin 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Competitiveness and corporate social responsibility in Lesotho's apparel industry (anglais)
The Lesotho textile and garment sector faces two major challenges: (1) increased competition after the phase-out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA) in 2005, and (2) the scheduled 2007 expiration of the...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 38022 Date du document: 1 juin 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Reducing administrative barriers to investment: lessons learned (anglais)
This report assesses the lessons learned from a decade of work by Foreign Investment Advisory Service (FIAS) to help developing-country governments improve their country's investment climate by removing...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 35703 Date du document: 1 janvier 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Colidge, Jacqueline,Jacobs,Scott
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Etude sur l'amelioration de l'acces du secteur prive aux terrains a usage industriel commercial et residentiel (français)
Cette Étude sur l’amélioration de l’accès du secteur privé aux terrains à usage industriel, commercial et résidentiel, souligne que l’approche consistant à taxer les terres est identifiée, par bon nombre...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 38019 Date du document: 29 novembre 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Cambodia - Corporate social responsibility and the apparel sector : buyer survey results (khmer)
The Government of Cambodia has asked the Foreign Investment Advisory Services (FIAS), a joint facility of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the World Bank, to undertake an advisory project...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 34657 Date du document: 1 décembre 2004 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Cambodia - Corporate social responsibility and the apparel sector : buyer survey results (anglais)
The Government of Cambodia has asked the Foreign Investment Advisory Services (FIAS), a joint facility of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the World Bank, to undertake an advisory project...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 34657 Date du document: 1 décembre 2004 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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The effectiveness of promotion agencies at attracting foreign direct investment (anglais)
A perplexing question has become increasingly important: Does investment promotion really work? The authors hereby made a major step in providing a convincing answer to this question. Because many countries...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 27150 Date du document: 1 octobre 2003 Auteur: Morisset, Jaques, Andrews-Johnson, Kelly
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Attracting foreign direct investment into infrastructure : why is it so difficult? (anglais)
The Foreign Investment Advisory Service (FIAS), a joint facility of the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), found during the early 1990s, that governments and foreign investors...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 29744 Date du document: 1 janvier 2000 Auteur: Sader,Frank