 | Africa Action Plan |
| Africa Asia Business Directory: The Sub-Saharan Africa-Asia Business Directory is a directory of African and Asian businesses operating in Sub-Saharan Africa. The aim is to create a professional and business-friendly directory of African and Asian businesses, executives and associations that are currently operating (or with the potential to invest/operate) in Sub-Saharan Africa. This business directory acts as a tool for both African and Asian businesses and trade organizations wanting to promote trade and investment between the two regions. |
| Africa Open for Business: a new documentary which seeks to dispel the myths about business in Africa by showcasing ten entrepreneurs on the continent who tell in their own words their path to success. |
| Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP): CGAP is a consortium of 31 public and private development agencies working together to expand access to financial services for the poor in developing countries. Article from CGAP: Access for all: A Bold Vision for Microfinance |
| Development Gateway |
| Development Marketplace |
| Doing Business website: This website's database provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement. The Doing Business indicators are comparable across 155 economies. They indicate the regulatory costs of business and can be used to analyze specific regulations that enhance or constrain investment, productivity and growth. |
| IFC Private Sector Development |
| Investment Climate Facility for Africa (ICF): The ICF is a new private-public partnership, focused on improving the continent's investment climate. It is an independent trust with strong African representation on the Board of Trustees. It provides a mechanism through which the private sector, the G8 countries, other donors and African governments and institutions can support Africa's vision for sustainable growth and development. |
| Presidential Investors' Advisory Councils in Africa - Impact Assessment Study |
| | About Investment Climates: The World Bank Group has created an Investment Climate Unit (ICU) to standardize its approach for assessing country conditions through surveys and indicators. ICU has generated a standard core survey instrument for investment climate assessment, providing the basis to link investment climate conditions to firm-level productivity. Supplementary modules have been created to evaluate such issues as regulatory compliance costs, SME constraints and foreign investor concerns. The ICU is now working to develop a standard methodology for survey sample design. The ICU is also working to gather or generate standard indicators of the Investment Climate at a national level. |
| | Investment Climate Survey Data Portal: This website presents data from two wide-ranging surveys, the Investment Climate Surveys of the World Bank Group and the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank. The data reports on the investment climate and economic decisions of more than 14,000 firms in over 30 countries. More are added on a regular basis. |
| Investor Council websites:
-- Tanzania National Business Council
-- Ghana's Investors Advisory Council
-- Senegal Investor Council
-- Uganda Investment Authority |
| Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) |
| New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) |
| Poverty in Africa |
| Povertynet website |
| Privatization Database: This site provides information on more than 9,000 privatization transactions in developing countries from 1988 to 2003. Search transactions by country, region or sector for a particular time period or for the entire period covered in the database. |
| World Bank Africa Capacity Development Task Force |
| World Bank Africa Region - Regional Integration and Cooperation |
| World Bank Africa Region - Conflict and Development |
| | World Bank Africa Region - Trade website |
| World Bank Energy website |
| World Bank Infrastructure website |
| World Bank Private Sector Development website |
| World Bank Trade Research |
| World Bank Urban Development in Sub-Saharan Africa |
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