FIAS: The Investment Climate Advisory Service

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Investing Across Borders Indicators is a new World Bank Group initiative comparing regulation of foreign direct investment around the world. It presents quantitative indicators on economies' laws, regulations, and practices affecting how foreign companies invest across sectors, start businesses, access industrial land, and arbitrate commercial disputes. Learn more >

How To Reform Business Licenses. This new handbook is designed to assist practitioners in designing and implementing comprehensive "guillotine"-style reforms of business licenses. It features step-by-step guidance that is supported by checklists, as well as standard project documents and templates. This handbook draws from experiences gained through licensing reforms carried out in a wide range of developing and OECD countries. Learn more >

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In Rwanda, Entrepreneurs are in Business in Two Steps and 24 Hours
With continued technical support from Investment Climate Advisory Services of the World Bank Group, the investment climate reform program in Rwanda has been to simplify procedures and to cut costs and time requirements that burden businesses and the administration. Read more >