luis aldo sánchez-ortega 3 rd regional competitiveness conference in southeast europe przno, may...
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Albania:Shkodra Vlora Bosnia and Herzegovina:Banja Luka Mostar Croatia:Osijek Šibenik Varaždin Macedonia:Bitola Montenegro:Nikšić Pljevlje Kosovo:Priština Prizren Serbia:Kruševac Užice Vranje Zrenjanin Doing Business in SEE… covering 16 citiesTRANSCRIPT
Luis Aldo Sánchez-Ortega
3rd Regional Competitiveness Conferencein Southeast Europe
Przno, May 20-22, 2008
in South East Europe 2008
• Extends Doing Business indicators beyond the most populous city to other cities
• Combines the media appeal of Doing Business with a strategy to actively involve local governments in reform process
• It creates demand for other WB/IFC products and converts WB/IFC BEE teams into reform facilitators
Why expand Doing Business to the subnational level?
Diagnostic tool Reform instrument M&E instrument
• Creates baseline• Allows locations to compete
locally and globally• Entry point in countries averse
to international comparisons• Puts regulatory reform on
political agenda
• Comparisons within countries are strong drivers of reform
• Uncovers bottlenecks and local good practices
• Promotes peer to peer learning
• Measures progress over time
• Creates an incentive to maintain reform effort even when governments change
Albania: ShkodraVlora
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Banja Luka
Mostar
Croatia: Osijek ŠibenikVaraždin
Macedonia: Bitola
Montenegro: Nikšić Pljevlje
Kosovo: PrištinaPrizren
Serbia: KruševacUžice
Vranje Zrenjanin
Doing Business in SEE… covering 16 cities
Doing Business in SEE… measuring 4 indicators
• Benchmarking the ease doing business in the SEE region
• Selected indicators: Starting a businessDealing with construction licensesRegistering propertyEnforcing contracts
• Why these indicators? Because these are areas where local governments have administrative and legislate competence
Subnational Doing Business has projects all around the globe
2005200620072008
Countries: 32
Cities: 230
Countries/RegionsGlobal ranking DB 2008
Hypothetical city ranking
South East Europe 75-136 9India 134 79*Pakistan 76 52OECS 27-85 14* Colombia 66 35México 43 33*Egypt 126 106Morocco 129 113China 83 67
Subnational DB uncovers best practices within a country
*2007 data
• Great initial impact. Political support for reform efforts has continued even after two rounds of local elections and one presidential election since first benchmark.
• Capacity-building strategy: methodology transferred to local think-tank with support from Mexican Government and FIAS quality control
• Led to reform assistance requests to IFC from 3 states.
Doing Business in Mexico 2006, 2007 and 2008: sustained development results
75%
2006 - 2007 2007 - 2008
94%
12 states
31 states
Reformers Non-reformers
9 reformers
29 reformers
http://Subnational.doingbusiness.org
Links to specific country subnational websites
General description
Detailed information in 5 languages
2nd phase: Merge global
and SDB databases
Launching conference
presentations
Names of all the people involved in SBD projects
Services for clients and
public in general
http://Subnational.doingbusiness.orgCountry reports’
general description
Main findings
Data analysi
s
Rankings
Free reports in local language
and English
National reform simulator
http://subnational.doingbusiness.org
Doing Business