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WASHINGTON, D.C., Sep 16, 2008
— Policymakers and business executives involved in private sector development will join the World Bank, IFC, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to discuss the findings regional reform trends published in the new Doing Business 2009 report.
The report finds that regulatory reforms are gaining momentum worldwide, reaching record numbers this year. It recorded 239 reforms between June 2007 and June 2008 that made it easier to do business in 113 economies.
For the fifth year in a row, Eastern Europe and Central Asia led the world’s regions, with more than 90 percent of its countries making reforms. Africa also had a record year for regulatory reforms, with 28 countries completing 58 reforms that make it easier to do business—more than in any other year. The world’s top 10 economies that reformed their business regulations are, in order, Azerbaijan, Albania, the Kyrgyz Republic, Belarus, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Botswana, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and Egypt.
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What
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Presentation on
Doing Business 2009
report findings
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Who
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Host
Henrietta H. Fore
Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development and Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance
Guest speaker
Michael U. Klein
Vice President, Financial and Private Sector Development, World Bank-IFC
Chief Economist, IFC
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When
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Where
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The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
The Rotunda Room
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C. DC 20523
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RSVP & Interviews
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For registration and interviews, contact:
Rebecca Ong; Phone: (202) 458-0434; e-mail:rong@worldbank.org
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About the World Bank Group’s Doing Business Project
Doing Business 2009
ranks 181 economies on the overall ease of doing business. Doing Business ranks economies based on 10 indicators of business regulation that track the time and cost to meet government requirements in starting and operating a business, trading across borders, paying taxes, and closing a business. Visit
www.doingbusiness.org
for more information.
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