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.

Profiles

South East Europe continues to improve business regulations for entrepreneurs

Doing Business in South East Europe 2011 is the second in a series of reports comparing business regulations across 22 cities in the region. The report covers Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, and Serbia. It finds that all cities have improved business regulations since 2008, but there is still ample room for reform.
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Doing Business in the East African Community 2011

Doing Business in the East African Community 2011 is the second in a series of reports comparing business regulations across five economies in the region: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. The report finds that East Africa could benefit from sharing good practices in business regulation. It also notes that all East African Community economies made it easier to do business in the past 5 years.

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Doing Business in the Arab World 2011

Doing Business in the Arab World 2011 is the third 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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