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Bank Dunia juga memperakui agenda pembaharuan Kerajaan adalahdidorong oleh Pasukan Petugas Khas Pemudahcara Perniagaan(PEMUDAH) dan Unit Pengurusan dan Prestasi Perlaksanaan(PEMANDU). Ini menggambarkan penambahbaikan berterusan dalampenyampaian perkhidmatan awam dan kecekapan keseluruhan jenteraKerajaan melalui Program Transformasi Ekonomi (ETP) dan ProgramTransformasi Kerajaan (GTP).Kerajaan juga komited dalam inisiatif pembaharuan strategik untukmenjadikan Malaysia negara paling berdaya saing di dunia. MatlamatKerajaan adalah untuk mencapai kedudukan 10 teratas di dalam LaporanBank Dunia yang akan mengukuhkan lagi kedudukan Malaysia sebagaidestinasi pilihan pelabur tempatan dan asing.Kementerian Perdagangan Antarbangsa dan Industri,Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.23 Oktober 20123

4. The World Bank has acknowledged Malaysia as among the top tenreformers within the APEC region that made the most progresstoward the frontier in regulatory practices, and was cited forestablishing the regulatory reform committee at the inter-ministeriallevel. The World Bank also identified good practices from Malaysia asfollows:Offering cadastre information online under Registering Property;Distributing data on loans below 1% of income per capita underGetting Credit;Defining clear duties for directors in case of related-partytransactions under Protecting Investors; andAllowing electronic filing of complaints under Enforcing Contracts.Malaysia’s Performance in Doing Business 20135. In the recently released Doing Business Report by the World Bank,Malaysia improved its ranking to 12 th position among 185 countries in2013, moving up six notches from 18 th in 2012. Malaysia is ahead ofSweden (13 th ), Taiwan (16 th ), Thailand (18 th ), Germany (20 th ), SaudiArabia (22 nd ), Japan (24 th ) and Switzerland (28 th ) (Table 1).Table 1: Top 20 Countries of the World Bank Doing Business 2013EconomyEase of Doing Business (Rank)2013 2012 2011Singapore 1 1 1Hong Kong SAR, China 2 2 2New Zealand 3 3 3United States 4 4 4Denmark 5 5 55