Session 1: Case studies on business licenses simplification procedures

The case of Lima, Peru
Jaime Alva, General Manager, Lima Municipality

Presentation (pdf, 3.96 Mb)

The case of Mexico
José Manuel Sieiro Negreira, Director of Links between States and Municipalities, Federal Commission for Regulatory Improvement, Mexico

Presentation (pdf, 613 kb)

The case of One-Stop Shops in Indonesia
Adam Day, Manager Economic Programs, Asia Foundation, Indonesia

Full text (pdf, 338 Kb)        Presentation (pdf, 133 kb)

The case of Alexandria
Yehia K. El Dozdar, IFC PEP Program, El Cairo, Egypt

Presentation (ppt, 3.75 Mb)

Session 2: Evaluating firm behavior

Practitioner's perspective
Cesar Cordova, Director Jacobs and Associates Consulting, Paris, France

Full text (pdf, 120 Kb)      Presentation (ppt, 169 kb)

Academic perspective
Albert Berry, Professor Economics, University of Toronto, Canada

Full text (pdf, 84 Kb)        Presentation (ppt, 49 kb)

Evaluating firm behavior: qualitative approach
Fernando Villaran, ex- Minister of Labor Peru, Director SASE, Peru

Full text (pdf, 52 Kb)        Presentation (ppt, 771 kb)

Evaluating firm behavior: quantitative approach
Juliano Assunçao, Associate Profesor, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

Full text (pdf, 153 Kb)      Presentation (ppt, 83 kb)

Panel
Alexis Diamond, IFC,Business Enabling Environment Division, Washington DC

Full text (pdf, 21 Kb)        Presentation (ppt, 185 kb)

Carmen Pages, PhD Economist, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington DC

Presentation (ppt, 1.14 Mb)

Session 3: Donor's panel

PSD evaluation: donors' perspectiva
Saul Morris, Evaluation Officer, DFID, British Ministry for International Development

Presentation (ppt, 197 Kb)

Zheng Zhang, Economist Americas Branch, Canadian International Development Agency, CIDA

Presentation (ppt, 283 Kb)

Session 4: Methodology for impact evaluation of business license simplification projects

Panel tracer study on the impact of business simplification processes, Lima, Peru
Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Policy Advisor and Researcher, GRADE, Peru

Presentation (ppt, 115 kb)

Proposed methodology for the panel tracer study on the impact of business simplification processes, Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Kristtian Rada, IFC Office for Advisory Services in LAC

Introduction to the Business License Simplification Procedures project in Honduras
Bernard Kilian, INCAE, Costa Rica

Presentation (ppt, 240 kb)

Amy Angel, FUSADES, Fundación Salvadoreña para el Desarrollo, El Salvador

Presentation (ppt, 1.12 Mb)

Panel
Jan ter Wengel, Professor Master in Economics, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Bogotá, Colombia, Advisor to the United Nations and to the Asian Development Bank

Presentation (ppt, 88 kb)

Juan Diego Zelaya, General Manager, Tegucigalpa Municipality, Honduras

Presentation (ppt, 13.8 Mb)