The Doing Business project provides objective measures of business regulations for local firms in 190 economies and selected cities at the subnational level.
Doing Business 2017 – Case studies spotlight
Getting Credit - Legal Rights: Two approaches to developing an integrated secured transactions regime
Modern secured transactions regimes have gained lots of attention from policy makers wishing to provide access to finance for small companies.
The collateral related reforms can be achieved either by a piecemeal approach, where various existing laws are amended, or by the passage of a new comprehensive law that encompasses all types of security interests in movable assets.
Paying Taxes 2017: The Global Picture
This report, the eleventh in a series from the World Bank Group and PwC, measures tax systems for a domestic company complying with tax laws and regulations in each economy. The case-study company is a small to medium-size manufacturer and retailer, chosen to ensure that its business can be identified with and compared worldwide. In an expanded analysis this year, the report includes a new measure on postfiling processes: claiming a Value Added Tax refund and going through a corporate income tax audit.
Doing Business 2017
Doing Business adds gender dimension in three of the 10 topics included in the ease of doing business ranking: ,
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This World Bank Group flagship publication, is the 14th in a series of annual reports measuring the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations that can be compared across 190 economies—from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe—and over time.
This is the sixth subnational report in Mexico that assesses different dimensions of the business environment in 32 states.
Subnational reports has benchmarked 437 locations in 65 economies since 2005.
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Doing Business in Mexico 2016
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