Mexican cities vary significantly in the ease of doing business, with Aguascalientes faring best overall, according to a World Bank report.

      The report, Doing Business in Mexico, looks at regulations that enhance business activity, as well as those that constrain it. It finds that reforms increase the competitiveness of economies, allowing firms to grow faster and create more jobs.

      Co-sponsored by COFEMER, USAID, and the World Bank Group, the report covers four areas of regulation: starting a business, registering property, obtaining credit, and enforcing a contract. The cities it covers are Aguascalientes, Celaya, Ciudad Juárez, Guadalajara, Mérida, Mexico City, Monterrey, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Tlalnepantla, Torreón, and Veracruz.

            “Benchmarking the ease of business transactions allows government officials to focus on removing the constraints to economic growth.  The pressure to reform is greater when comparisons are made within a country, contrasting cities and states that implement identical national-level regulations,” says Simeon Djankov, author of...

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