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The report is also supported by an annex that details international best practices for secured transactions laws and registries. | 2007 | Vietnamese Simplification of Business Start-up Process and Procedures provides best practice references to provinces in establishing and operating a one stop shop (OSS) office to handle business start-up registration process and procedures in Vietnam, including information disclosure, form renovation, information technology application, customer service and monitoring and evaluation of models in practice. The handbook also recommends a reference OSS model based on current legal framework and experiences from reforms of business start-up procedures in certain provinces in Vietnam as well as examples from other countries around the world. The handbook is the result of a joint collaboration between the Mekong Private Sector Development Facility of the International Finance Corporation – the private sector arm of the World Bank Group and the Central Institute for Economic Mananagement – a reputed local research institute in Vietnam. By IFC-MPDF and CIEM | June 2007 | Vietnamese paperback Recent research on the development of the Cambodian private sector has highlighted four important and interconnected findings. 1) The private sector is the major source of employment in the economy (accounting for 92% of total jobs) and will continue to be the dominant source of job creation and poverty reduction for the foreseeable future. 2) Nevertheless, relative to its peers in other Southeast Asian economies, the Cambodian private sector has been inhibited in its ability to grow and create jobs because of a wide spectrum of institutional barriers and constraints to its development. 3) As a result of these institutional barriers, the vast majority of private enterprises have avoided the full formalization of their activities (as measured by whether an enterprise has registered with the Ministry of Commerce). 4) For all unregistered enterprises and most of the registered enterprises as well, the immediate interface with governing institutions is at the local (specifically the provincial/municipal) level. The PBES is a thorough diagnosis of the comparative economic governance of 10 provinces according to 10 basic criteria (sub-indices: Entry Costs, Property Rights, Transparency and Access to information, Participation, Time Costs of Regulatory Compliance, Informal Charges, Crime Prevention, Tax, Proactivity of Provincial Leadership and Dispute Resolution). The ultimate goal of the project is to identify the provinces that have excelled at various aspects of provincial governance and communicate the successful practices to struggling provinces. | Summary report English | Technical report English
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This study explores the business environment in Vietnam from the perspective of supporting economic growth. It focuses on informality and the evenness of the playing field in Vietnam’s business sector. The study is based on findings from a survey of private and state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in 11 Vietnamese cities. It reflects the views of Vietnamese entrepreneurs on the business environment and incorporates the feedback from discussions with policy makers, financiers, and representatives of international organizations. The study provides evidence of the significant improvements that have taken place in the Vietnamese business environment. It also identifies areas where policy actions can help to create a more transparent, predictable legal and regulatory framework and even the playing field for the private domestic-owned companies, the stateowned enterprises, and the foreign-invested companies. We hope that this study will provide all those with an interest in the development of the Vietnamese economy with new insights into its status and new ideas for ways to support and participate in its future growth. | 2003 | English Ministry of Commerce has collaborated with the International Finance Corporation’s Mekong Private Sector Development Facility (MPDF) in preparing this Guide and in other initiatives to inform the private sector about WTO. As you will see when you read this Guide, it is organized into two main sections. The first of these presents a detailed overview of WTO rules and policies. The second part examines the probable impact that WTO membership will have on a number of different sectors. This is a very important section because it gives a broad overview of the market for each sub-sector, the challenges that Cambodian businesses will face and also provides sources for further information on each market. | March 2003 | Full report English
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