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Subnational and Regional Doing Business Refor
ming Local and Regional
Business Environment

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What are the Doing Business indicators?
2007
2008
2009

• Starting a business
• Dealing with licenses
• Employing workers
• Registering property
• Getting credit
• Protecting investors
• Paying taxes
• Trading across borders
• Enforcing contracts
• Closing a business

• Update of 2007
• Add 3 countries
• Reformers Club
• 11 case studies

• Add Not paying bribes
• Add Using infrastructure
• Research program on regulation and business
  opportunities for women
  

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Doing Business methodology
a time and motion study

• Follow the entrepreneur from the beginning to the
  end of a basic transaction
  
• Record every step of the process, and the
  associated time and cost
  
• Gather all the relevant laws, regulations,
  decrees, fee schedules

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Subnational and Regional Doing Business
Key features

• Expands the Doing Business indicators beyond the
  most populated city in the country
  
• Combines the media appeal of doing business with
  active participation of local governments
  
• Prepares country/region specific reports with
  data and reform recommendations
  
• Follows the Doing Business methodology allowing
  data comparisons with global report
  

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Benefits of a Subnational and Regional Doing
Business study

• Subnational/regional benchmarking

• Captures country and regional differences in
  regulations and their enforcement by all levels
  of government
  
• Fosters competition among locations to improve
  business regulation and put reforms on the
  political agenda
  
• Is more than a reporta public policy tool

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Benefits of a Subnational and Regional Doing
Business study

• Subnational/regional benchmarking

• Collects and publishes information on good
  practices within a country or region that can
  easily be replicated by others
  
• Allows cities to tell their story and compare
  themselves with each other and with 178 economies
  
  
• Creates a tool for specific locations to compete
  globally
  
• Measures progress over time through repeated
  benchmarking
  

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Basic inputs of a Subnational Doing Business
project

• Selection of DB indicators
• Criteria based on areas of local jurisdiction or
  practice
  
• Most frequent subnational DB indicators starting
  a business, dealing with licenses, paying taxes,
  trading across borders and enforcing contracts
  
• Selection of cities
• Criteria include population, economic activity
  and political diversity
  
• Selection of respondents
• Coordinating firm with country wide correspondent
  network
  
• Questionnaires adapted to local language
• Training of respondents on methodology
• Participation of subnational governments
• High level commitment focal point
• Input of local governments as survey respondents
  
  
• Confidential consultations and right of reply
  period
  

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Key Milestones

• Kick off mission
• Project presentation to provincial/municipal
  officials
  
• Meetings with private sector
• Right of reply
• Confidential consultation with each
  city/province
  
• Feedback on preliminary results
• Information regarding ongoing reforms
• Dissemination conference
• High level public and private sector champions
  and academia
  
• Media strategy

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Subnational and Regional Doing Business
example of project timeline
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Subnational and Regional Doing Business projects
Global roll out
Russia
Central Asia
Russia
Central Asia
SEE - Balkans
Italy
Veneto
China
China
Morroco
Morocco
Pakistán
Pakistan
OECS
OECS
Mexico
Mexico
Phillipines
Philippines
Brazil
Brazil
India
Colombia
Colombia
Nigeria
Indonesia
Finalized Ongoing/planned Update underway
Egypt
Egypt
Argentina
South Africa
South Africa
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How Brazilian states compare internationally
(Jan 2006)?
Subnational Doing Business study example Brazil
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Subnational Doing Business study example Mexico
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Doing Business puts reforms on the political
agenda
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Thank you!
Questions and/or Comments?
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