Regulatory Reform

Guiding Reforms to Egypt's Business Regulations and Suez Canal Zone Concession Framework

From 2009-2010, Locus founder and CEO Jean-Paul Gauthier served as sub-component lead and senior legal advisor helping Egypt's local governments improve the quality of their regulations....

Uncovering the Barriers to Investment in Pakistan

The major problems with an economy aren't always what they seem. A common belief in Pakistan was once that the country's written statutes and regulations weren't the problem, but the government agencies implementing those laws. However, when Locus CEO Jean-Paul Gauthier led the World Bank's "Pakistan Administrative Barriers to Investment Study" from 2003-2007, he demonstrated that this wasn't the complete story. ....

Breaking Down Barriers to Investment in Nepal

In 2006-2007, Locus founder and CEO Jean-Paul Gauthier served as a senior advisor on the World Bank / Foreign Investment Advisory Service's (FIAS) Diagnostic of Nepal's Investment Climate. Nepal's Ministry of Industries, Commerce, and Supplies invited the World Bank team to evaluate barriers to investment....

Clearing Administrative Barriers to Investment in Niger

From 2006-2007, Jean-Paul Gauthier served as TTL and Team Lead for the World Bank's Niger Administrative Barriers to Investment Study. The project was conducted through the Foreign Investment Advisory Service (FIAS), for which Jean-Paul served as the designated SEZ law point person on 38 total projects....

Making Burkina Faso's Investment Climate Leap

Locus is committed to making it easier to do business in our client's countries. ... From 2005 to 2007, Locus founder and CEO Jean-Paul Gauthier led the World Bank / International Finance Corporation's (IFC) "Doing Business Better" Project for Burkina Faso....

Building Better Business Laws in West and Central Africa

OHADA is an organization of 17 Central and West African countries that seeks to improve the business environment in the region by passing uniform laws applying to all businesses in member state. From 2006-2007, Locus founder and CEO Jean-Paul Gauthier led an ... effort to help reform OHADA laws that were in need of updating. ...

Reforming the Investment Climate in Tajikistan

Legal reforms have been crucial to Tajikistan's economic development....  Locus CEO Jean-Paul Gauthier led the IFC's efforts to improve the country's laws from 2004 to 2006 as part of the Tajikistan Investment Climate Reform Project. During that time, he assisted the development of regulatory reforms that ...

Addressing Administrative Barriers in Egypt

From 2004 to 2005, Locus founder and CEO Jean-Paul Gauthier served as Senior Advisor on the World Bank's Egypt Investment Climate Assessment / Administrative Barriers Project. At the time, administrative red tape seriously hampered business growth ...

Clearing the Way for Small Businesses in Nigeria

Evidence shows that micro, small, and medium size enterprises (MSME) play a crucial role in a thriving economy. In many countries, however, unnecessary regulatory barriers keep MSMEs out of the market.... To address this problem, the IFC had Locus founder and CEO Jean-Paul Gauthier...

Making Government More Efficient in Fiji

In 2004, the Government of Fiji sought the assistance of the World Bank to help improve its program for issuing investment approvals and registering businesses. Locus Founder and CEO Jean-Paul Gauthier served as a senior advisor on the project, providing hands-on, practical assistance to several government agencies involved in these functions....

Removing Barriers to Investment in Morocco

Addressing administrative barriers to growth is central to Locus Economica's work. ... [F]rom 1999 to 2002, Locus founder and CEO Jean-Paul Gauthier helped the government of Morocco address administrative barriers to investment while serving as interim chief of party and project manager for the USAID Investor Roadmap for Morocco Program ...