Doing Business in Egypt 2008 is the first subnational Doing Business report in the Middle East and North Africa. The report covers three cities and governorates (administrative regions)—Cairo, Alexandria and Assiut— that are compared with each other, and with 178 countries around the world. Comparisons with other cities, regions and countries are based on the indicators in Doing Business 2008.

Doing Business in Egypt 2008 measures the ways in which government regulations enhance business activity or restrain it at the subnational level. The report studies three Doing Business topics: starting a business, dealing with licenses and registering property. These indicatorscover areas of governorate or district jurisdiction. Doing

Business in Egypt 2008 also provides information on reform efforts undertaken by the Egyptian government in recent years that affect other Doing Business topics—getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes and trading across borders.

The report aims to provide a tool for Egyptian cities to become globally competitive. By identifying good practices and bottlenecks, it fosters peer-learning and competition to reform across governorates. The indicators are used to analyze the economic outcomes of the regulations and to identify what reforms have worked, where and why.

The methodology has limitations. Other areas important to business—such as proximity to major markets, the quality of infrastructure services (other than those related to trading across borders), the security of property from theft and looting, the transparency of government procurement, macroeconomic conditions or the underlying strength of institutions—are not studied directly by Doing Business. To make the data comparable across countries, the indicators refer to a specific type of business—generally a limited liability company.

Doing Business in Egypt 2008 is the result of a request from the Egyptian Ministry of Investment to FIAS, a multi-donor investment climate advisory service of the World Bank Group. The report was produced with the assistance of the General Authority for Investments and Free Zones and the financial support of the United States Agency for International Development and the IFC.

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"In publishing Doing Business, the World Bank is producing a public good: measurements of regulatory performance that may become as indispensable to reformers and to academics as national income accounts." --Financial Times, September 6, 2006

 "A helpful exercise in quantifying business regulations and their costs." --The Economist - September 15, 2005

"a fascinating ranking of how easy it is to do business in 155 countries of the world." --The New York Times - October 18, 2005

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