This book on light manufacturing in Zambia is part of broader World Bank work on light manufacturing in Africa. The focus on light manufacturing, with its emphasis on labor-intensive economic activities, is particularly appropriate for a resource-based economy such as that of Zambia. While...

Doing Business in Russia 2012 is the second subnational report in the Doing Business series in Russia. In 2009, quantitative indicators on business regulations were published for 10 cities: Irkutsk, Kazan, Moscow, Perm, Petrozavodsk, Rostov-on-Don, Saint Petersburg, Tomsk, Tver, and Voronezh....