Doing Business Regional, National, and Subnational Reports

Items in this collection

Now showing 1 - 5 of 5

Subnational Doing Business in Brazil 2021: Comparing Business Regulation for Domestic Firms in 27 Brazilian Locations with 190 Other Economies

(World Bank, Washington, DC, 2021-11-08) World Bank Group

Subnational Doing Business in Brazil 2021 focuses on business regulations and their enforcement. It goes beyond Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo to benchmark other Brazilian locations across five regulatory areas. The report also includes two pilot studies on registering as an individual microbusiness owner (Microempreendedor Individual, MEI) and paying taxes. under the simples nacional tax regime in five locations in Brazil. The study’s objectives are to provide a broader understanding of Brazil’s business regulatory environment and highlight good practices that can inspire improvements around the country. This report presents data current as of September 1, 2020 and includes comparisons with other economies.
Doing Business in Malaysia 2020

(World Bank, Washington, DC, 2020-04) World Bank

Doing Business in Malaysia 2020 focuses on business regulation and its enforcement across three Doing Business areas. The study goes beyond Kuala Lumpur to benchmark five other cities in the areas of dealing with construction permits and registering property. It also measures the process of trading across borders through four Malaysian ports. This study contains data current as of November 1, 2019, and includes comparisons with other economies based on data from Doing Business 2020. Doing Business measures aspects of regulation that enable or hinder entrepreneurs in starting, operating or expanding a business - and provides recommendations and good practices for improving the business environment.
Doing Business in the European Union 2020: Greece

(World Bank, Washington, DC, 2020) World Bank Group

Doing Business was the first global indicator created to measure aspects of regulation that enable or hinder the owners of small and medium-size businesses in starting, operating or expanding their companies. In its annual publication, each economy is represented by its largest business city and compared globally with another one hundred and eighty-seven economies. Doing Business in the European Union 2020 Greece benchmark twenty-four additional cities, capturing regional differences in regulations and their enforcement. This report highlights the divergence in regulatory performance among six Greek cities and suggests ways to bridge the implementation gap and converge toward best regulatory practices in the five areas benchmarked.
Doing Business in the European Union 2020: Ireland

(World Bank, Washington, DC, 2020) World Bank Group

Doing Business was the first global indicator created to measure aspects of regulation that enable or hinder the owners of small and medium-size businesses in starting, operating or expanding their companies. In its annual publication, each economy is represented by its largest business city and compared globally with another one hundred and eighty-seven economies. Doing Business in the European Union 2020 Ireland benchmark twenty-four additional cities, capturing regional differences in regulations and their enforcement. This report aims to fill some of the gaps in what is known about the quality and features of business regulations in Ireland by creating regional level data that can be used to analyze the regulatory hurdles entrepreneurs face in five main cities of Cork, Dublin, Galway, Limerick and Waterford. The report also lists recommendations for reforms and good practices in each of the five areas measured that Irish cities can adopt to allow businesses to operate more effectively.
Doing Business in the European Union 2020: Italy

(World Bank, Washington, DC, 2020) World Bank Group

Doing Business was the first global indicator created to measure aspects of regulation that enable or hinder the owners of small and medium-size businesses in starting, operating or expanding their companies. In its annual publication, each economy is represented by its largest business city and compared globally with another one hundred and eighty-seven economies. Doing Business in the European Union 2020 Italy benchmark twenty-four additional cities, capturing regional differences in regulations and their enforcement. This report focuses on the rules and regulations that govern business activity across Italy, as well as on the efficacy of the bureaucracy at local level. This layer of administration is especially important in a country like Italy, where local authorities play a crucial role in determining how national regulations are implemented. Cities’ variations in regulatory performance on the five Doing Business indicators studied in this report highlight an opportunity for local policymakers to adopt in-country examples of good practices to improve regulatory performance in their jurisdictions.