Documentos e informes
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Understanding and improving data on entrepreneurship and active companies (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 46182 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2008 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: 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 (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 46178 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2008 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Coolidge,Jacqueline,Ilic,Domagoj,Kisunko,Gregory
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Special economic zone : performance, lessons learned, and implication for zone development (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 45869 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2008 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: 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 (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 42811 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2008 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Improving the business environment in Latvia : the impact of FIAS assistance (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 41920 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2008 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Coolidge, Jaqueline,Grava,Lars Nikolajs,Liepina,Sanda
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Attracting investment to South East Europe : survey of FDI trends and investor perceptions (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 46177 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 2007 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Moving toward competitiveness : a value chain approach (Inglés)
Developing countries face tremendous opportunities for economic growth given economic liberalization worldwide, and rapid advancement and application of information and communications technologies. However...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 46993 Fecha del documento: 1 de agosto de 2007 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Subramanian,Uma
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Competition policy and promotion of investment, economic growth and poverty alleviation in least developed countries (Inglés)
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:...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 41334 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2007 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Khemani, R.S.
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Sector study of the effective tax burden : Lesotho (Inglés)
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)...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 38023 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2006 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Competitiveness and corporate social responsibility in Lesotho's apparel industry (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 38022 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2006 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Reducing administrative barriers to investment: lessons learned (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 35703 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2006 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: 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 (Francés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 38019 Fecha del documento: 29 de noviembre de 2005 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Cambodia - Corporate social responsibility and the apparel sector : buyer survey results (Jemer)
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...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 34657 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 2004 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Cambodia - Corporate social responsibility and the apparel sector : buyer survey results (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 34657 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 2004 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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The effectiveness of promotion agencies at attracting foreign direct investment (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 27150 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 2003 Autor: Morisset, Jaques, Andrews-Johnson, Kelly
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Attracting foreign direct investment into infrastructure : why is it so difficult? (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 29744 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2000 Autor: Sader,Frank