Doing Business comes to Doha

The seminar will discuss the key findings of the "Doing Business 2009" report. It will also provide a venue for identification of areas for action and improvement.

Qatar debuted in the annual "Doing Business 2009" report. The report provides quantitative indicators of business regulations and evaluates regulations that directly affect the ability of business to grow, create jobs and identifies good regulatory reform practices. The report ranks Qatar 37th out of 181 countries. Within the MENA region Qatar is in the fourth out of 19 countries.

All in all Qatar performs well and is not far behind the OECD average but some areas of weakness exist, including access to credit.
The one day seminar "Comparing Business regulations in 181 economies" will explain these findings and identify possible ways in which Qatar could make improvements.

"Doing Business 2009" report was released in the beginning of September by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group. In Qatar, General Secretariat for Development Planning (GSDP) coordinated the survey closely with the IFC.

The "Doing Business" seminar will be joined by Ms. Dahlia Khalifa, a Senior Private Sector Development Specialist at the World Bank, by GSDP's top management and policymakers and business leaders from the public and private sector.