Документы и доклады
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Understanding and improving data on entrepreneurship and active companies (Английский)
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...
Типу документа: Рабочие документы Номер отчета: 46182 Дата подготовки документа: 1 июня 2008 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: 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 (Английский)
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...
Типу документа: Рабочие документы Номер отчета: 46178 Дата подготовки документа: 1 июня 2008 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Coolidge,Jacqueline,Ilic,Domagoj,Kisunko,Gregory
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Special economic zone : performance, lessons learned, and implication for zone development (Английский)
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...
Типу документа: Рабочие документы Номер отчета: 45869 Дата подготовки документа: 1 апреля 2008 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: 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 (Английский)
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...
Типу документа: Рабочие документы Номер отчета: 42811 Дата подготовки документа: 1 января 2008 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed
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Improving the business environment in Latvia : the impact of FIAS assistance (Английский)
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...
Типу документа: Рабочие документы (нумерованная серия) Номер отчета: 41920 Дата подготовки документа: 1 января 2008 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Coolidge, Jaqueline,Grava,Lars Nikolajs,Liepina,Sanda
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Attracting investment to South East Europe : survey of FDI trends and investor perceptions (Английский)
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...
Типу документа: Рабочие документы Номер отчета: 46177 Дата подготовки документа: 1 ноября 2007 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed
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Moving toward competitiveness : a value chain approach (Английский)
Developing countries face tremendous opportunities for economic growth given economic liberalization worldwide, and rapid advancement and application of information and communications technologies. However...
Типу документа: Рабочие документы Номер отчета: 46993 Дата подготовки документа: 1 августа 2007 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Subramanian,Uma
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Competition policy and promotion of investment, economic growth and poverty alleviation in least developed countries (Английский)
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:...
Типу документа: Рабочие документы (нумерованная серия) Номер отчета: 41334 Дата подготовки документа: 1 января 2007 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Khemani, R.S.
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Competitiveness and corporate social responsibility in Lesotho's apparel industry (Английский)
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...
Типу документа: Рабочие документы Номер отчета: 38022 Дата подготовки документа: 1 июня 2006 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed
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Sector study of the effective tax burden : Lesotho (Английский)
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)...
Типу документа: Рабочие документы Номер отчета: 38023 Дата подготовки документа: 1 июня 2006 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed
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Reducing administrative barriers to investment: lessons learned (Английский)
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...
Типу документа: Рабочие документы (нумерованная серия) Номер отчета: 35703 Дата подготовки документа: 1 января 2006 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: 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 (Французский)
This study, Etude sur l'Amelioration de l'Acces du Secteur Prive aux Terrains a Usage Industriel Commercial et Residentiel, stresses that the approach to land tax is identified by many recent studies as...
Типу документа: Рабочие документы Номер отчета: 38019 Дата подготовки документа: 29 ноября 2005 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed
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Cambodia - Corporate social responsibility and the apparel sector : buyer survey results (Кхмерский)
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...
Типу документа: Рабочие документы Номер отчета: 34657 Дата подготовки документа: 1 декабря 2004 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed
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Cambodia - Corporate social responsibility and the apparel sector : buyer survey results (Английский)
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...
Типу документа: Рабочие документы Номер отчета: 34657 Дата подготовки документа: 1 декабря 2004 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed
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The effectiveness of promotion agencies at attracting foreign direct investment (Английский)
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...
Типу документа: Публикации Номер отчета: 27150 Дата подготовки документа: 1 октября 2003 года Автор: Morisset, Jaques, Andrews-Johnson, Kelly
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Attracting foreign direct investment into infrastructure : why is it so difficult? (Английский)
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...
Типу документа: Публикации Номер отчета: 29744 Дата подготовки документа: 1 января 2000 года Автор: Sader,Frank