World Bank | International Finance Corporation (IFC) Presentation CRF 2009
1. WORLD BANK GROUP SUPPORT TO BUSINESS ENTRY REFORMS Andrei Mikhnev Karim O. Belayachi
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4. WBG Business Entry Reform Projects We support business entry reforms in 50 countries
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8. Top 20 on the ease of Starting a Business, 2009 1. New Zealand 11. Jamaica 2. Canada 12. Macedonia, former Yugoslav Republic of 3. Australia 13. Azerbaijan 4. Georgia 14. France 5. Ireland 15. Hong Kong, China 6. United States 16. Denmark 7. Mauritius 17. Iceland 8. United Kingdom 18. Finland 9. Puerto Rico 19. Tonga 10. Singapore 20. Belgium
11. Poland Belarus Antigua & Barbuda Colombia Dominica El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras St. Kitts St. Lucia Albania Macedonia Armenia Azerbaijan Kyrgyz Rep . India Bangladesh Mozambique Kenya Rwanda Burundi DRC Madagascar Central African Rep. Senegal Sao Tome Zambia Burkina Faso Cote d’Ivoire Ghana Liberia Mali Mauritania Jordan Kuwait, Iran Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, UAE Yemen Greece Singapore Lao PDR Cambodia Indonesia Vanuatu Timor Leste Tonga Vietnam DB Reform Unit Advisory: requests received
14. Subnational Doing Business in AFRICA Nigeria First subnational DB report DB in Nigeria 2008 launched May 2008 Second round started in January 2009 Kenya First subnational DB report has started in October 2009