Regional Reports
Regional Doing Business reports capture differences in business regulations and their enforcement across countries in a single region. They provide data on the ease of doing business, rank each location, and recommend reforms to improve performance in each of the indicator areas.
The latest regional reports are listed below.
Doing Business in the East African Community 2013
This report compares business regulations and identifies good practices in the 5 East African Community economies: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. It finds all economies have made it easier to do business in the past 7 years.
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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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Doing Business in the Arab World 2012
Doing Business in the Arab World 2012 is the fourth in a series of annual reports benchmarking the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it in 20 economies in the Arab world.
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Doing Business in OHADA 2012
This report compares business regulations in the 16-member Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa. This region imposes heavy and costly regulations for local entrepreneurs. However, the report finds all economies have made it easier to do business in the past 6 years.
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