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Doing Business
The Doing Business database provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement. The Doing Business indicators are comparable across 175 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 Map - Take a trip around the world to discover how easy (or difficult) it is to do business in 175 economies. Click on the green, yellow or red marks to see details of a country.

 Now available online: Doing Business 2007 - full report
 New indicators added: Paying taxes

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Simulate reforms
How would a country's ranking change if it reformed?  See the impact of reforms by using the ranking simulator (Excel, 186KB) to change indicator values. This exercise assumes that other countries don't reform.

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