The Investment Climate business line works with governments, civil society, and private firms to foster business-friendly conditions for private sector investment and job creation. Current products include:
- Business Entry: Working with governments to streamline regulatory requirements to make it easier for entrepreneurs to enter the formal economy.
- Business Operations: Supporting the simplification of licensing, permitting, and business inspections in order to reduce the cost of compliance to operate a business.
- Trade Logistics: Assisting private firms in building efficient trade logistics systems and services, thus reducing the time and costs associated with trading goods and services.
- Doing Business and Municipal Scorecard Reports: The Doing Business Report provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement at the national-level, while the Municipal Scorecard measures the time and cost of complying with municipal-level business regulations. Both reports highlight regulatory bottlenecks and publicize successful simplification efforts.
- Doing Business Reform Advisory: Assisting governments design and implement reform agendas to improve their business environments as measured by the Doing Business indicators.
- Investment Policy and Promotion: Working with clients to establish an effective legal, policy, and institutional framework for investment and to leverage these improvements to attract new investment.
Learn more about our Investment Climate work in LAC [pdf - 527 KB]
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