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Highlights

Director's Note

New World Bank Group Report Finds over 80 percent of

Investment Promotion Agencies Efforts Falling Short

Lao Embraces Reforms

Measuring the Impact of Investment Climate Reform

Unleashing More Than $3 Trillion in Financing in China

through Secured Transactions Reform

Vietnam Streamlines Business Regulations

Recent publications

>> Global Investment Promotion BestPractices 2012

>> More publications

Upcoming publications

>> Innovative Solutions for Business

Registration Reforms

>> Viewpoint Note: The Impact of

Competition Policy Reforms

--------------------------------Notable Blog Posts

>>

Want to sell your country to

investors? Answer the phone!

By Robert Whyte

>>

Do the economics of Corporate Social

Responsibility matter for Private

Sector Interventions?

By Markus Kitzmuller

>>

Of One Mind? Closer Coordination of

Monetary Policy and Financial

Regulation

By Ian Dalton

--------------------------------Investment Climate in the News

>>

Global: World Bank Group's Global

Investment Promotion Best practices

2012 report (GIPB 2012) launched

>> Nepal: WBG Conducts Workshop on

Tax Compliance Cost Survey

>> More Investment Climate in the News

Director's Note

This issue looks at our new framework to measure the development impact of

investment climate reforms and how it can help in setting priorities and targeting

resources. The Bank Group, with strong donor support, helps developing countries

implement improvements to policies, laws, regulations, and procedures affecting

businesses. We expect that assessing the impact of our work more systematically will

change the way we do business, helping us to redeploy resources from low- to high-

impact work. A recent evaluation of the China secured transactions project, for example,

indicated that nearly 70,000 Chinese SMEs have accessed an estimated $1 trillion of

financing secured by accounts receivable following changes to the secured transactions

legal framework and the introduction of an electronic registry for accounts receivable. In

Romania, our support helped enact legislative amendments that provide for expeditedformal bankruptcy cases and facilitate the use of out-of-court restructuring mechanisms,

potentially impacting some 16,000 companies and $5.6 billion worth of non -performing

loans.

On the knowledge management front: the recently released Global Investment

Promotion Best Practices 2012 (GIPB 2012) report, which tracks the performance of

national investment promotion agencies in 189 economies in responding to information

requests from potential investors, found that over 60% of agencies implementing best

practices and investment promotion agencies in two regions, Middle East and North

Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean, showed improvements in both inquiry-

handling and website performance relative to the GIPB 2009 results, illustrating that

even in difficult circumstances good investor facilitation is possible.

Regards,

Marialisa

New World Bank Group Report Finds over 80 percent of

Investment Promotion Agencies Efforts Falling Short

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--------------------------------What's new on the website

>> The Resilience of Haiti's Private

Sector

>> Curbing Greenhouse Gases in Jakarta

>> Liberia- A Post-conflict Economy on

the Mend

The Global Investment Promotion Best Practices 2012 assesses 189 economies

responsiveness to investors and finds that investment promotion agencies are less

responsive to direct investor inquiries than they were three years ago. In the areas of

inquiry-handling and website performance, two regions showed improvement over the

past two yearsthe Middle East and North Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean.

>> Read full story

Lao Embraces Reforms

The World Bank Group has been working with the government and private sector in Laos

to improve regulations related to taxes and investment, and to set up a framework for

sustained dialogue between the public and private sectors.

>> Watch slideshow

>> See Business Environment Snapshot of Lao PDR

Measuring the Impact of Investment Climate Reform

A multi-donor Bank Group program addresses client and donor interest in deploying

measures of development impact to help set priorities and target resources for

investment climate reforms. In March, the United Kingdom joined the United States to

support the joint IFC-World Bank initiative implemented by the Investment Climate

Department, building on a project launched in 2010.

>> Read full story

Unleashing More Than $3 Trillion in Financing in China

through Secured Transactions Reform

Independent Evaluator Confirms Remarkable Efficiency of World Bank Group Reform in

Increasing SME Lendings.

>> Read full story

>> See Business Environment Snapshot of China

Vietnam Streamlines Business Regulations

These improvements make it easier to do business, creating jobs and opening up

investment opportunities in the country.

>> Watch Video

>> See Business Environment Snapshot of Vietnam

The World Bank Group is grateful for its development partners, especially through the FIAS multi-donor investment climate program, fortheir financial and operational support and collaboration.

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