Business enabling environment

A competitive, vibrant and resilient economy reduces poverty, creates employment and increases equality of access to important goods and services.  

Sustainable growth and digital transition underpin the development of resilient economies. Climate change, digital transformation and external shocks on our supply chains, ranging from health crises to wars, are challenging the way we do business, trade, work and live. Understanding the origins and impacts of such transformational challenges and addressing them with hands-on capacity building and coordination activities are at the heart of our work to guarantee resilience in an ever more complex world.    

A conducive business environment is essential for economic growth, investment, and job creation. Our services focus on improving the regulatory, institutional, and policy frameworks that support business development and competitiveness. We provide technical assistance, policy advice, and capacity building to governments and organisations to create enabling environments for businesses. Our initiatives include regulatory reform, investment climate assessments, and business environment benchmarking, contributing to the sustainable and inclusive growth of economies. We also focus on capacity building for business support institutions, promoting the adoption of best practices in business regulation, and enhancing the resilience of businesses to economic shocks. Our projects include the development of business environment reform strategies, the promotion of investment-friendly policies, and the implementation of business support programmes. By integrating sustainability considerations into business environment reforms, we ensure that our initiatives contribute to long-term economic growth and resilience.