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The Doing Business project provides objective measures of business regulations for local firms in 189 economies and selected cities at the subnational level. About Us »
Doing Business 2015: Going Beyond Efficiency, a World Bank Group flagship publication, is the 12th in a series of annual reports measuring the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 189 economies—from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe—and over time.
This report compares business regulations in 22 cities and 10 ports in Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. The study focuses on regulations that affect 4 stages in the life of a small to medium-size domestic firm and includes a gender perspective.
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Download other Subnational reports: Select an economy Doing Business in Central America and the Dominican Republic 2015 Doing Business in Nigeria 2014 Doing Business in Mexico 2014 Doing Business in Egypt 2014 Doing Business in Colombia 2013 Doing Business in Italy 2013 Doing Business in Hargeisa 2012 Doing Business in Kenya 2012 Doing Business in Russia 2012 Doing Business in Indonesia 2012 Doing Business in OHADA 2012 Doing Business in South East Europe 2011 Doing Business in Juba 2011 Doing Business in Zanzibar 2010 Doing Business in the Philippines 2011 Doing Business in Pakistan 2010 Doing Business in India 2009 Doing Business in Veneto 2009 Doing Business in Small Island Developing States 2008 Doing Business in China 2008 Doing Business in Egypt 2008 Doing Business in Morocco 2008 Doing Business in Org. of Eastern Caribbean States 2007 Doing Business in South Asia 2007 Doing Business in Brazil 2006
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