Doing Business 2008Regulations affecting 10 areas of everyday business are measured: starting a business, dealing with licenses, employing workers, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, and closing a business. 'Doing Business 2008' updates all 10 sets of indicators, ranks countries on their overall ease of doing business, and analyzes reforms to business regulation - identifying which countries are improving their business environment the most and which ones slipped. The indicators are used to analyze economic outcomes and identify what reforms have worked, where and why. 'Doing Business 2008' focuses on how complex business regulations dampen investment, growth and job creation in all businesses, and especially opportunities for women entrepreneurs. |
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Baker & McKenzie borders rank Burkina Faso business rank Closing a business Cost to export credit information index Depth of credit Difficulty of hiring director liability index disclosure index 0–10 Documents to export Ease of shareholder Employing workers rank employment index 0–100 Enforcing contracts rank export days export number Extent of director Firing cost weeks firing index 0–100 Getting credit rank hiring index hiring index 0–100 hours index 0–100 income per capita income Registering property information index 0–6 investor protection index legal rights index Lex Mundi liability index 0–10 licenses rank member of Lex Nonwage labor cost Paying taxes rank Payments number Private bureau coverage Procedures number Protecting investors rank protection index 0–10 Public registry coverage Recovery rate cents Registering property rank rights index 0–10 Rigidity of employment Rigidity of hours shareholder suits index Strength of investor Strength of legal suits index 0–10 Trading across borders Uzbekistan weeks of salary
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Page 83 - Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, GuineaBissau, Guyana, Haiti...
Page 85 - Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu...
Page 92 - Difficulty of hiring index Rigidity of hours index Difficulty of firing index Rigidity of employment index...
Page 75 - Protecting investors Doing Business measures the strength of minority shareholder protections against directors' misuse of corporate assets for personal gain. The indicators distinguish 3 dimensions of investor protection: transparency of transactions (extent of disclosure index), liability for self-dealing (extent of director liability index) and shareholders' ability to sue officers and directors for misconduct (ease of shareholder suits index).
Page 1 - East Asia & Pacific Latin America & Caribbean Middle East & North Africa — South Asia ••»•• Sub-Saharan Africa Source: World Bank data files.
Page 85 - Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago...
Page 77 - Doing Business records the tax that a medium-size company must pay or withhold in a given year, as well as measures of the administrative burden in paying taxes. Taxes are measured at all levels of government and include the profit or corporate income tax, social...
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