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Spring/Summer 2005 Newsletter |
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The Better Regulator™
REGULATORY REFORM AND BETTER BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS
The Global View from Jacobs and Associates
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Letter from Scott Jacobs.
- Regulatory reforms in Europe: still dangerously slow
- Marching Onward: Regulatory Impact Analysis
- RIA Training Courses: 30 years of RIA experience in the classroom
- Regulatory reform, meet
e-Government: e*RIATM
- e*RIATM in practice: the case of Mexico, RIA, and e-government
- Regulatory reform in South Asia:
A call to action
- The regulatory state of tomorrow: big, complex, and unaccountable
- Reducing red tape and
administrative formalities is still a top priority…everywhere
- Regulatory Guillotine: A tool to assist countries in rapid regulatory simplification
- At last, quiet progress on regulatory reform in Japan?
- Boosting Private Sector Development in Asia
- New international indicators for
regulatory reformers
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Letter from Scott Jacobs
Dear Colleagues, |
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| Countries determined to see real gains are making bold regulatory reforms. In the past year, we were pleased to assist many of our clients take dramatic steps to improve their market regulations. |
- l Serbia's new business registry, designed by Jacobs and Associates ( with World Bank and SIDA support), opened its doors on 2 January 2005. The new registry, the first in the Balkans to be moved out of the courts, will reduce registration delays from 31 to 5 days and create a national electronic registry. In May 2005, Bulgaria's government, advised by Jacobs and Associates (with Bearing Point/USAID), announced that it, too, will shift business registration out of the judicial courts into a new agency by 2007.
- The Government of Kenya set up in February 2005, with the assistance of Jacobs and Associates and FIAS, a Working Committee on Regulatory Reforms for Business Activity. The Working Group is using our Regulatory Guillotine approach to review and simplify 600 national business licenses and fees.
- Moldova adopted the Regulatory Guillotine by law in January 2005 and is reviewing hundreds of regulations used in burdensome business inspections. Ukraine's State Committee on Regulatory Policy and Entrepreneurship, where we are working with BizPro/USAID, announced similar and rapid reforms in June 2005. Macedonian Prime Minister Buckovski committed in April 2005 to adopt a guillotine law and regulatory impact analysis, with input from Jacobs and Associates working with FIAS.
These bold reforms need monitoring to assess results but seem likely to produce substantial benefits for businesses, consumers, and growth. Other innovative reforms include e*RIATM, described on p. 4. We were delighted to welcome in February 2005 a highly-experienced Director, Michael Griffin. Mr. Griffin is leading our Irish company, Jacobs and Associates Europe Ltd., from Dublin.
Our newsletter contains highlights of selected regulatory reforms around the globe. It supplements our website at www.regulatoryreform.com. Please contact the Directors at any time with enquiries.
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With our best wishes,
Scott Jacobs
Managing Director |
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