The bulldozer initiative in Bosnia and Herzegovina is an example of a public-private dialogue that successfully overcame the lack of political will and capacity at the government level through a bottom-up approach. The initiative mobilized the local business community to "bulldoze" business...

The private enterprise partnership (PEP) for Eastern Europe & Central Asia has been surveying the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector for 10 years. What began in 1996 as a survey of business practices among 250 entrepreneurs in Ukraine has grown into annual or biannual surveys of...

Obtaining an operating license used to be the most bureaucratic procedure when starting a business in Peru, accounting for 62 percent of the total time. In January 2006, with assistance from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) technical assistance (TA)...