Doing Business in Italy 2013 measures business regulations and their enforcement in 13 Italian cities –Bari, Bologna, Cagliari, Campobasso, Catanzaro, L’Aquila, Milan, Naples, Padua, Palermo, Potenza, Rome and Turin– and 7 ports –Cagliari, Catania, Genoa, Gioia Tauro, Naples, Taranto and Trieste. The report measures regulations affecting 5 stages of the life of a small or medium-size business: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, registering property, enforcing contracts and trading across borders.
Category: Doing business guides
Country level global business guides
Panama 2014 – A New Global Trade Map
The Doing Business 2015 Report: Going Beyond Efficiency
UK Import and export procedures
Customs declarations and documentation, dealing with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), using transit and processing systems, obtaining duty relief.
Doing Business in Central America and the Dominican Republic 2015
Doing Business in Central America and the Dominican Republic 2015 compares business regulations in 6 Central American countries (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama) and the Dominican Republic. In addition to the capitals, the study collects data related to 15 subnational locations regarding regulations that affect 3 stages in the life of a small to medium-size domestic firm: starting a business, dealing with construction permits and registering property. The study also analyzes the indicator of trading across borders, considering 7 main ports and 3 secondary ports. Moreover, it includes a gender perspective based on the study of laws and regulations that impose differential treatment for women.
Doing Business 2015
Doing Business 2015: Going Beyond Efficiency, a World Bank Group flagship publication, is the 12th in a series of annual reports measuring the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 189 economies—from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe—and over time.