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The publications listed below include documents produced as part of the BizCLIR project and links to other organizations' documents that might be of interest to users of this site.  If you have other documents that you feel may be of interest, please contact us.

A Note on Competitiveness and Structural Transformation in Pakistan: Jesus Felipe, December 2007

Abuse of Dominance Enforcement under Latin American Competition Laws: Maria Coppola Tineo and Russell Pittman, 2006

Abuse of Dominance Provisions of Central and Eastern European Competition Laws: Russell Pittman, 2004

Access to Credit in East African Countries: BizCLIR Team, June 2009

Access to Credit in East African Countries: Shared Issues and Priorities for Reform: ,

ACTESA Design Plan: ACTESA, August 2008

Afghanistan Economic Incentives and Development Initiatives to Reduce Opium Production: Christopher Ward, David Mansfield, Peter Oldham and William Byrd, February 2008

Afghanistan: Investment Climate Assessment: The World Bank, December 2005

AgCLIR Assessment: Ghana: AgCLIR Ghana Assessment Team, November 2008

AgCLIR Assessment: Kosovo: AgCLIR Team, March 2010

AgCLIR Assessment: Nigeria: AgCLIR Team, May 2009

AgCLIR Assessment: Senegal: AgCLIR Team, September 2009

AgCLIR Assessment: Tanzania: BizCLIR Team, May 2010

AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Closing a Business: BizCLIR Team, May 2009

AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Dealing with Licenses: BizCLIR Team, March 2009

AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Employing Workers: BizCLIR Team, May 2009

AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Enforcing Contracts: BizCLIR Team, May 2009

AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Getting Credit: BizCLIR Team, March 2009

AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Paying Taxes: BizCLIR Team, March 2009

AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Protecting Investors: BizCLIR Team, March 2009

AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Registering Property: BizCLIR Team, March 2009

AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Starting a Business: BizCLIR Team, March 2009

AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Trading Across Borders: BizCLIR Team, March 2009

Alternative Dispute Resolution Manual: Lukasz Rozdeiczer and Alejandro Alvarez de la Campa, November 2006

Analysis of Business Registration and Licensing in the Philippines: Deanna Lijauco, Aurma Manlangit (GTZ), November 2006

Anti-Money Laundering Literature Search: The World Bank Group,

Apoyo a las reformas del entorno empresarial: Donor Committee for Enterprise Development, August 2008

Assessing the Impact of the Investment Climate on Productivity Using Firm-Level Data: The World Bank, June 2005

Assessments, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Research: Linn Hammergren, 1998

Bank Privatization in Sub-Saharan Africa : the Case of Uganda Commercial Bank: Clarke, George R.G.; Cull, Robert; Fuchs, Michael, November 2007

BizCLIR Assessment: Afghanistan: BizCLIR Team, August 2007

BizCLIR Assessment: Albania: BizCLIR Team, September 2000

BizCLIR Assessment: Armenia: BizCLIR Team, December 2001

BizCLIR Assessment: Azerbaijan: BizCLIR Team, August 2002

BizCLIR Assessment: Bulgaria: BizCLIR Team, March 2002

BizCLIR Assessment: Cambodia: BizCLIR Team, April 2007

BizCLIR Assessment: Costa Rica: BizCLIR Team, December 2004

BizCLIR Assessment: Costa Rica (Spanish): BizCLIR Team, December 2004

BizCLIR Assessment: Croatia: BizCLIR Team, December 2004

BizCLIR Assessment: El Salvador: BizCLIR Team, January 2005

BizCLIR Assessment: El Salvador (Spanish): BizCLIR Team, January 2005

BizCLIR Assessment: Ethiopia: BizCLIR Team, January 2007

BizCLIR Assessment: Guatemala: BizCLIR Team, January 2005

BizCLIR Assessment: Guatemala (Spanish): BizCLIR Team, January 2005

BizCLIR Assessment: Honduras: BizCLIR Team, January 2005

BizCLIR Assessment: Honduras (Spanish): BizCLIR Team, December 2004

BizCLIR Assessment: Indonesia: BizCLIR Team, November 2007

BizCLIR Assessment: Indonesia (2003): BizCLIR Team, October 2003

BizCLIR Assessment: Jamaica: BizCLIR Team, December 2007

BizCLIR Assessment: Kazakhstan: BizCLIR Team, July 1999

BizCLIR Assessment: Kenya: BizCLIR Team, June 2009

BizCLIR Assessment: Kosovo: BizCLIR Team, September 2004

BizCLIR Assessment: Laos: BizCLIR Team, November 2006

BizCLIR Assessment: Macedonia: BizCLIR Team, March 2009

BizCLIR Assessment: Macedonia (2000): BizCLIR Team, July 2000

BizCLIR Assessment: Macedonia (2003): BizCLIR Team, November 2003

BizCLIR Assessment: Macedonia (2005): BizCLIR Team, December 2005

BizCLIR Assessment: Nicaragua: BizCLIR Team, December 2004

BizCLIR Assessment: Pakistan: BizCLIR Team, August 2008

BizCLIR Assessment: Philippines: BizCLIR Team, July 2007

BizCLIR Assessment: Poland: BizCLIR Team, January 1999

BizCLIR Assessment: Romania: BizCLIR Team, January 1999

BizCLIR Assessment: Rwanda: BizCLIR Team, June 2008

BizCLIR Assessment: Rwanda Executive Report: BizCLIR Team, June 2008

BizCLIR Assessment: Serbia: BizCLIR Team, August 2001

BizCLIR Assessment: Tanzania: BizCLIR Team, February 2008

BizCLIR Assessment: Ukraine: BizCLIR Team, April 1999

BizCLIR Assessment: Vietnam: BizCLIR Team, September 2007

BizCLIR Assessment: Zimbabwe: BizCLIR Team, January 2010

BizCLIR Assessment: BizCLIR for the Palestinian Economy: BizCLIR Team, March 2010

BizCLIR Assessment: Burundi: BizCLIR Team, November 2008

BizCLIR Assessment: Nicaragua (Spanish): BizCLIR Team, December 2004

BizCLIR Assessment: Uganda: BizCLIR Team, December 2008

Book Review: Africa's Private Sector: Vijaya Ramachandran, March 2009

Bringing More Dead Capital to Life: USAID, December 2006

Building a Microfinance Network in Albania - Challenges and Opportunities: Lutz Grashof, 2002

Building Trade Capacity in the Developing World: USAID, March 2003

Business Licensing Reform: World Bank, November 2006

CAFTA Report (English): USAID, January 2005

CAFTA Report (Spanish): USAID, January 2005

Calculating Tariff Equivalents for Time in Trade: USAID, March 2007

Capacity-Building on Competition Law and Policy for Development: UNCTAD, 2008

Capturing the Value of Kenya's Global Reputation: Light Years IP, March 2009

Case Studies on Implementing a Single Window: UN, June 2006

Central Asia: Increasing Gains from Trade Through Regional Cooperation in Trade Policy, Transport, and Customs Transit: Asian Development Bank, 2005

Commercial Law and Microeconomic Reform: A Practical Guide to Program Implementation: BizCLIR Team, 2007

Corporate Financial Structures and Performance in Developing Countries: Dilip Ratha, Sanket Mohapatra, and Philip Suttle, 2003

Costa Rica: Investment Climate Assessment: The World Bank, February 2007

Courts: Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer, May 2003

Credit Bureau Knowledge Guide: IFC, 2006

Criteria for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Competition Authorities: UNCTAD, April 2007

Crop Bioengineering: Enormous Potential for Catalyzing International Development: Peter Gregory, Stanley Kowalski, July 2009

Cross-Border Trade in East African Countries: ,

Customs Reform and Trade Facilitation: USAID's FASTrade Project, February 2005

Debt Enforcement around the World: Simeon Djankov, Oliver Hart, Caralee McLiesh, and Andrei Shleifer, December 2008

Designing Tax Systems for Micro and Small Businesses: The World Bank (in cooperation with DFID), December 2007

Developing Corporate Governance Codes of Best Practice: The World Bank, 2005

Do Overlapping Property Rights Reduce Agricultural Investment? Evidence from Uganda: Klaus Deininger and Daniel Ayalew Ali , August 2007

Doing Agribusiness: BizCLIR Team, August 2008

Doing Business: An Independent Evaluation: Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), 2008

Effect of Corporate Taxes on Investment and Entrepreneurship: Simeon Djankov, Tim Ganser, Caralee McLiesh, Rita Ramalho, and Andrei Shleifer, Forthcoming

El Salvador: Investment Climate Assessment: The World Bank, July 2005

Electricity Restructuring in China: Russell Pittman and Vanessa Yanhua Zhang, April 2008

Enforcing Secured Transactions in Central and Eastern Europe: An Empirical Study: Frederique Dahan, Eliska Kutenicova, and John Simpson, No publication date

Entry Regulation as a Barrier to Entrepreneurship: Leora Klapper, Luc Laeven, and Raghuram Rajan, 2004

Establishing and Implementing a Customs Integrity Program: USAID, September 2005

Establishing and Implementing a Customs Program Management Process: USAID's FASTrade Project, July 2005

Establishing Risk Management and Cargo Selectivity Capability: USAID's FASTrade Project, July 2004

EU Modernized Customs Code: European Union, 2008-06

Follow-up Activities on the Improvement and Documentation of Business Licensing Procedures in the Cities of Bacolod and Ormoc: Deanna R. Lijauco and Aurma M. Manlangit (GTZ), July 2008

GenderCLIR Report: Rwanda: BizCLIR Team, September 2009

Global Best Practices: Governance, Risk, and Compliance series: PricewaterhouseCoopers, 2005

Good Practices for Business Inspections: Guidelines for Reformers: The World Bank, October 2006

Guatemala: Investment Climate Assessment: The World Bank, January 2006

HealthCLIR Assessment: Philippines: HealthCLIR Team, November 2009

HealthCLIR Assessment: Uganda: HealthCLIR Team, January 2010

Honduras: Investment Climate Assessment: The World Bank, November 2004

Impact of Microfinance on Rural Households in the Philippines: Toshio Kondo, September 2007

Indonesia CLIR Consolidated Indicators: BizCLIR Team, November 2007

Indonesia SEA CLIR Report: BizCLIR Team, November 2007

Intellectual Property and Economic Growth: Michael P. Ryan, 2008

Intellectual Property Rights: Ingredient for Growth in Developing Countries: Javier Fernandez,

International Agreements On Competition: UNCTAD, May 2007

International Labour Migration and Development: The ILO Perspective: International Labor Organization (ILO), September 2006

International Supply Chain Security and its Impact on Developing Countries: USAID's FASTrade Project, September 2004

International Trade: Improving the Duty Collection/ Payment Process: USAID's FASTrade Project, December 2004

Kenya Benchmarking Study: Leather and Garment Processing: UNIDO, January 2004

Kenya Growth and Competitiveness: World Bank, January 2005

Kenya: Investment Climate Assessment: The World Bank, November 2004

Land and Business Formalization for Legal Empowerment of the Poor: USAID, January 2007

Land and Violent Conflict: A Toolkit for Programming: USAID, 2005

Land Tenure Security and Agricultural Productivity: Karol Boudreaux and Daniel Sacks, September 2009

Lao - Private sector and investment climate assessment: The World Bank, February 2007

Lao PDR: Medium-term Strategy and Action Plan for Industrial Development: UNIDO, 2003

Law and Economics of Self Dealing: Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopes-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer, November 2006

Learning and Earning in Global Garment and Footwear Chains: Hubert Schmitz, December 2006

Legal Empowerment of the Poor: John Bruce, May 2007

Legal Empowerment Quarterly: Edition Five: Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, May 2008

Legal Knowledge and Economic Development: the Case of Land Rights in Uganda: Klaus Deininger, Daniel Ayalew, and Takashi Yamano, March 2006

Making the Law Work for Everyone: Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor and United Nations Development Programme, 2008

Metrology, Standards and Conformity Assessment, Tools to Accelerate Economic Growth: Ed Nemeroff and Dan Rathbun, May 2009

Modernization of the Jordanian Customs Administration Project: GTZ, 2005

Nepal Feasability Study on Establishment of Secured Transactions Registry: FIAS, March 2008

New Zealand Customs and Excise Regulations: New Zealand Customs Service, 1996

NLCIFT 12 Principles of Secured Transactions Law in the Americas: National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade, October 2006

Operationalising Pro- Poor Growth: A Country Case Study on Indonesia: Peter Timmer, October 2004

Opportunities and Risks of Liberalising Trade in Services: Country Study on Tanzania: GTZ, 2004

Options for Restructuring the State-Owned Monopoly Railway: Russell Pittman, No publication date

Paying Taxes 2009: The Global Picture: PricewaterhouseCoopers, 2008

Performance Incentives for Border Control Officers: USAID's FASTrade Project, August 2004

PIC - Palestine Newsletter Issue N. 1: PIC - Palestine , March 2008

Policy Principles for Expanding Financial Access: Center for Global Development, October 2009

Policy Reform Lessons Learned: USAID, June 2007

Private Credit in 129 Countries: Simeon Djankov, Caralee McLiesh, and Andrei Shleifer, March 2006

Private Sector Trade Facilitation Service Opportunities: USAID's FASTrade Project, November 2004

Property Rights in a Very Poor Country: Tenure Insecurity and Investment in Ethiopia: Daniel Ayalew Ali, Stefan Dercon, and Madhur Gautam , September 2007

Recent Trends In Financial Flows To Developing Countries: International Monetary Fund (IMF), August 2003

Reforming Business Registration Regulatory Procedures at the National Level: International Finance Corporation (IFC), 2006

Reforming Collateral Laws and Registries: International Best Practices and the Case of China: FIAS, March 2007

Reforming Collateral Laws to Expand Access to Finance: Heywood Fleisig, Mehnaz Safavian, and Nuria de la Pena, 2006

Reintegration in Burundi: Between Happy Cows and Lost Interventions: Pyt Douma and Jean Marie Gasana, October 2008

Revitalizing the Rural Economy: The World Bank Group, July 2006

SEA CLIR-Trade Regional Synthesis Report: BizCLIR Team, March 2008

Serbia: Investment Climate Assessment: The World Bank Group, December 2004

Smart Lessons: Modernizing Italy's Bankruptcy Law: Michele Vietti, December 2007

Southern Africa Needs Intellectual Property Protection: Judy Goans, September 2007

Strategic Communications for Business Environment Reforms: IFC/World Bank, October 2007

Streamlining Business Registration and Licensing Procedures: Experiences from the Philippines and Vietnam: Ulla Keppel, Le Duy Binh, and Julius Spatz, 2006

Supporting Business Environment Reforms: Donor Committee for Enterprise Development, August 2008

Taking a Personal Commitment to Justice to the World: The Third Branch, December 2008

Tanzania - Pilot Rural Investment Climate Assessment: The World Bank Group, June 2007

Tanzania: Investment Climate Assessment: The World Bank Group, November 2004

Tanzania: Lessons in Building Linkages for Competitive and Responsible Entrepreneurship: Tamara Bekefi, 2006

Tax Administrations and Small and Medium Enterprises in Developing Countries: Lewis I. Baurer, July 2005

Tax Policy: Recent Developments: Steve Rozner, No publication date

Taxation and the Enabling Environment: Steve Rozner and Mark Gallagher, May 2008

Taxes and the Enabling Environment: USAID, September 2007

Technical Assistance for the Effective Applications of Compeitition Laws: US Federal Trade Commission, Department of Justice, February 2008

The Doing Business Agenda and Beyond: German Development Institute , 2008

The Economic Crisis: The Impact on Women: USAID, March 2009

The Impact of the Doha Round on Kenya: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2009

The Power of Collateral: Heywood Fleisig, April 1995

The Practical Importance of Harmonization of Commercial Contract Law: Jan M. Smits, July 2007

The Provincial Business Environment Scorecard in Cambodia: The Asia Foundation, March 2007

The Regulation of Entry: Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopes-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer, 2002

The Regulation of Labor: Juan C. Botero, Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer, June 2004

The Right to Borrow: Heywood Fleisig, April 1995

The United Nations Set Of Principles And Rules On Competition: UNCTAD, 2000

The Vietnam Provincial Competitiveness Index 2007 Report: The Asia Foundation and USAID, 2007

Trade and Poverty Linkages: A Case Study of the Poultry Industry in Bangladesh: Selim Raihan and Nahid Mahmud, June 2008

Trade Costs, Export Development, and Poverty in Rwanda: Ndiame Diop, Paul Brenton, and Yakup Asarkaya, December 2005

Trade Mainstreaming and PRSP - Lessons from the Experiences of Cambodia: Sok Siphana, December 2003

Trade Reforms and Food Security: Country Case Studies and Synthesis: Food and Agriculture Organization, 2006

Trading on Time: Simeon Djankov, Caroline Freund, and Cong S. Pham, August 2007

Training Materials from USAID's "Trade and Investment Training," March 2010: USAID, March 2010

Ukraine Commercial Law Center Project: Lessons Learned: Emerging Markets Group, April 2008

United Nations Guidelines for Consumer Protection: UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, New York, 2003

Urban Labour Markets in Ethiopia: Challenges and Prospects: The World Bank, 2007

Urban Labour Markets in Ethiopia: Challenges and Prospects (Volume 2): The World Bank, March 2007

USAID Works with Women Weavers' Association to Eliminate Unnecessary Middlemen: ,

Vietnam: Lessons in Building Linkages for Competitive and Responsible Entrepreneurship: Tamara Bekefi, 2006

Vietnam: Increasing Access to Credit through Collateral Reform: FIAS, March 2007

WIPO Focuses on IP Issues for Women: World Intellectual Property Organization , October 2006


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