Welcome to the BizCLIR website!

This site is a dynamic knowledge development and knowledge sharing tool to improve the impact of USAID's efforts on Business Climate Legal and Institutional Reform. The site will host information for development practitioners including: country assessments, best practices, publications, and expert opinions. The goal is to share and capture information in this field from around the world and to become an active forum for sharing cutting-edge ideas.

As development practitioners, we face a difficult challenge: how to translate the macro-level insight that "good" laws and institutions are critical to sustained poverty reduction into specific approaches that will deliver measurable and lasting development impact. The World Bank's Doing Business Report provides an important first step by benchmarking each business environment while the BizCLIR program provides diagnostic tools that delve deeper in order to shed light on the underlying causes of the constraints.  (For more information on this relationship, please click here.)

We invite you to become an active participant in the business environment reform agenda. You should view this site as a forum for sharing best practices and relevant publications, learning about new and exciting happenings in the business enabling environment community, and applying this information in the field. Together we can drive transformational change in the private sector across the developing world.