Financial planning: Selected web sites

The Doing Business database provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement. The Doing Business indicators are comparable across 155 economies. They indicate the regulatory costs of business and can be used to analyze specific regulations that enhance or constrain investment, productivity and growth.

Published by Werksmans Inc of Johannesburg, South Africa, to give the reader a brief overview of the investment climate, taxation, forms of business organisation and business, accounting and legal practices in South Africa.

A.C. Braby (Pty) Ltd is the largest and longest established specialist business directory publisher in Southern Africa having been in continuous operation for 100 years

The company produces highly rated software such as:
Workstations for financial analysis and research
Graphing and quant applications

Investec is an international, specialist banking group that provides a diverse range of financial products and services to a select client base

The ICF is a new private-public partnership, focused on improving the continent's investment climate. Our mission is to make Africa an even better place to do business, by removing obstacles to domestic and foreign investment and by promoting Africa as an attractive investment destination

Created almost two decades ago, OFII is a business association in Washington D.C. representing the unique issues of U.S. subsidiaries of companies headquartered abroad. OFII's Member Companies range from medium-sized enterprises to some of the largest firms in the United States

The UNCTAD´s work programme on international investment agreements (IIAs) seeks to help developing countries to participate as effectively as possible in international rule-setting for investment

Contains the World Bank's most detailed data collection for assessing human welfare to provide a picture of the social effects of economic development. Data are presented for more than 170 economies, omitting only those for which data are inadequate. Emphasis in this publication is on country-by-country review. Up to 94 indicators are reported for each country including: size, growth, and structure of population; determinants of population growth (including data on fertility and infant mortality

Over the past 14 years, the SA Institute for Entrepreneurship's team has developed innovative entrepreneurship and business training materials which are now used in more than 75 countries and in 17 different languages

South African entrepreneur, Mark Shuttleworth, established the Shuttleworth Foundation in October 2000 with the belief that education is the key to unlocking the creative and intellectual potential of the South African youth, allowing them to live the dream that “anything is possible”.

This site strives to be the ultimate resource for aspiring and existing entrepreneurs

The prestigious annual award is presented by Business Partners Ltd, South Africa’s leading investment group for small and medium enterprises, in recognition of outstanding achievement in entrepreneurial enterprise

The Small Enterprise Development Agency (seda) is the Department of Trade and Industry's agency for supporting small business in South Africa

Powered by SME Insight, SME Survey is a research and marketing initiative that explores, among other topics, the role played by Black Economic Empowerment, the importance of access to expertise, finances and resources, and the role played by information technology such as the Internet, networking and business software in the competitiveness of small, medium and micro enterprises

The Center motivates people to practice ethical leadership, inspires institutions to create cultures of integrity and gathers the community to animate cultural change, all for the common good