Investing across Borders 2010 : Indicators of Foreign Direct Investment Regulation in 87 Economies

Investing Across Borders 2010 (IAB) presents cross-country indicators analyzing laws, regulations, and practices affecting foreign direct investment (FDI) in 87 economies. The indicators focus on 4 thematic areas measuring how foreign companies inv...

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Main Authors: International Finance Corporation, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, World Bank
Format: Report
Language:English
en_US
Published: Washington, DC 2017
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/826251468341077303/Investing-across-borders-2010-indicators-of-foreign-direct-investment-regulation-in-87-economies
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spelling okr-10986-278832021-04-23T14:04:44Z Investing across Borders 2010 : Indicators of Foreign Direct Investment Regulation in 87 Economies International Finance Corporation Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency World Bank INVESTING ACROSS SECTORS STARTING A FOREIGN BUSINESS ACCESSING INDUSTRIAL LAND ARBITRATING COMMERCIAL DISPUTES GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS ECONOMIC DOWNTURN IAB INDICATORS FDI COMPETITIVENESS FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT Investing Across Borders 2010 (IAB) presents cross-country indicators analyzing laws, regulations, and practices affecting foreign direct investment (FDI) in 87 economies. The indicators focus on 4 thematic areas measuring how foreign companies invest across sectors, start local businesses, access industrial land, and arbitrate commercial disputes. The indicators combine analysis of laws and regulations, as well as their implementation. They explore differences across countries to identify good practices, facilitate learning opportunities, stimulate reforms, and provide cross-country data for research and analysis. The project's methodology is based on the World Bank Group's Doing Business initiative. The IAB indicators draw on data collected through a survey of lawyers, other professional service providers (mainly accounting and consulting firms), investment promotion institutions, chambers of commerce, and other expert respondents in each of the countries measured. Between April and December 2009 more than 2,350 experts in 87 economies responded to the survey to provide data for this report. This chapter presents the report's main findings including examples of FDI competitiveness-enhancing practices for each indicator area. It also provides key results for each region. IAB does not measure all aspects of the business environment that matter to investors. For example, it does not measure security, macroeconomic stability, market size and potential, corruption, skill levels, or infrastructure quality. Still, the indicators provide a starting point for governments seeking to improve their competitiveness in attracting foreign investment. 2017-08-16T19:31:55Z 2017-08-16T19:31:55Z 2010 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/826251468341077303/Investing-across-borders-2010-indicators-of-foreign-direct-investment-regulation-in-87-economies http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27883 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Investment Climate Assessment Economic & Sector Work
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topic INVESTING ACROSS SECTORS
STARTING A FOREIGN BUSINESS
ACCESSING INDUSTRIAL LAND
ARBITRATING COMMERCIAL DISPUTES
GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS
ECONOMIC DOWNTURN
IAB INDICATORS
FDI COMPETITIVENESS
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
spellingShingle INVESTING ACROSS SECTORS
STARTING A FOREIGN BUSINESS
ACCESSING INDUSTRIAL LAND
ARBITRATING COMMERCIAL DISPUTES
GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS
ECONOMIC DOWNTURN
IAB INDICATORS
FDI COMPETITIVENESS
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
International Finance Corporation
Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
World Bank
Investing across Borders 2010 : Indicators of Foreign Direct Investment Regulation in 87 Economies
description Investing Across Borders 2010 (IAB) presents cross-country indicators analyzing laws, regulations, and practices affecting foreign direct investment (FDI) in 87 economies. The indicators focus on 4 thematic areas measuring how foreign companies invest across sectors, start local businesses, access industrial land, and arbitrate commercial disputes. The indicators combine analysis of laws and regulations, as well as their implementation. They explore differences across countries to identify good practices, facilitate learning opportunities, stimulate reforms, and provide cross-country data for research and analysis. The project's methodology is based on the World Bank Group's Doing Business initiative. The IAB indicators draw on data collected through a survey of lawyers, other professional service providers (mainly accounting and consulting firms), investment promotion institutions, chambers of commerce, and other expert respondents in each of the countries measured. Between April and December 2009 more than 2,350 experts in 87 economies responded to the survey to provide data for this report. This chapter presents the report's main findings including examples of FDI competitiveness-enhancing practices for each indicator area. It also provides key results for each region. IAB does not measure all aspects of the business environment that matter to investors. For example, it does not measure security, macroeconomic stability, market size and potential, corruption, skill levels, or infrastructure quality. Still, the indicators provide a starting point for governments seeking to improve their competitiveness in attracting foreign investment.
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author International Finance Corporation
Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
World Bank
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Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
World Bank
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title Investing across Borders 2010 : Indicators of Foreign Direct Investment Regulation in 87 Economies
title_short Investing across Borders 2010 : Indicators of Foreign Direct Investment Regulation in 87 Economies
title_full Investing across Borders 2010 : Indicators of Foreign Direct Investment Regulation in 87 Economies
title_fullStr Investing across Borders 2010 : Indicators of Foreign Direct Investment Regulation in 87 Economies
title_full_unstemmed Investing across Borders 2010 : Indicators of Foreign Direct Investment Regulation in 87 Economies
title_sort investing across borders 2010 : indicators of foreign direct investment regulation in 87 economies
publisher Washington, DC
publishDate 2017
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/826251468341077303/Investing-across-borders-2010-indicators-of-foreign-direct-investment-regulation-in-87-economies
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