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The Doing Business database provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement. The Doing Business indicators are comparable across 155 economies. They indicate the regulatory costs of business and can be used to analyze specific regulations that enhance or constrain investment, productivity and growth.
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Doing Business in 2006: Creating Jobs
Doing Business in 2006 - Creating Jobs: Purchase the third in a series of annual reports analyzing regulations that enhance or constrain investment productivity and growth. This edition updates old indicators and adds three new ones: dealing with licenses, paying taxes, and trading across borders.
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Business entry reforms: Afghanistan tops the list
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Doing Business 2004 and 2005 reports on "Understanding Regulation" (PDF, 3.1 MB) and "Removing Obstacles to Growth" (PDF, 2.1 MB)

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The Doing Business Report, which ranks India below Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh in terms of ease of doing business, "has left the country's major industry chambers divided" with some questioning the "very authenticity of the report" and others saying the World Bank should have considered "India's strong economic fundamentals before ranking it 116th."

Financial Express, Sept. 15, 2005

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