Doing Business Report Series

The Doing Business report series includes annual reports going back to 2004, a wide variety of subnational studies, and a number of special reports dealing with regions or topics. Use the tabs to read report summaries and to download. Additional country and regional reports can be downloaded below.

Doing Business Reports

Doing Business 2013

Doing Business 2013: Smarter Regulations for Small and Medium-Size Enterprises assesses regulations affecting domestic firms in 185 economies and ranks the economies in 10 areas of business regulation. This year's report offers four new datasets: Distance to frontier, good practices, entrepreneurship, and transparency in business regulations.

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Featured Subnational Report

Doing Business in Italy 2013

This report provides micro-level data for the business regulatory framework for domestic small and medium businesses in 13 Italian cities and 7 ports. The report examines 5 areas as measured by Doing Business: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, registering property, enforcing contracts and trading across borders.

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Featured Regional Report

Doing Business in the g7 + 2013

This is a special report that draws on the global Doing Business project and the findings of Doing Business 2013. The report compares business regulations and identifies good practices in the economies of the g7+ group, a country-owned and country-led global mechanism to monitor, report and draw attention to the unique challenges faced by fragile states.

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