Sub-National Doing Business - Central America and Dominican Republic

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The regional and subnational Doing Business project in Central America and the Dominican Republic will produce baseline data on four Doing Business areas that are actionable at the national and local level and where subnational differences are more likely to occur: Starting a Business, Dealing with Construction Permits, Registering Property and Trading Across Borders. The first three will be analyzed in 22 locations (7 capitals and 15 subnational cities -3 per country) in the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. The trading across borders indicator will cover main and secondary maritime ports and include an analysis on documents required for intra-regional trade. The project will also incorporate a gender component based on data from the 'Women, Business and the Law 2014 (WBL)' study addressing the gender gap in policy variables using quantitative and objective data collected in the region.