Doing Business 2007: How to ReformWorld Bank Publications, 2006 M01 1 - 194 pages "Doing Business 2007 focuses on reforms, identifies top reformers in business regulation, and best practices in how to reform. This volume is the fourth in a series of annual reports investigating global regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Co-sponsored by the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation - the private sector arm of the World Bank Group - this year's report measures quantitative indicators on business regulations and their enforcement compared across 175 countries - from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe - and over time. Doing Business 2007 updates indicators developed in the three preceding reports. The ten indicators are: starting a business, dealing with licenses, hiring and firing, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, trading across borders, paying taxes, enforcing contracts, and closing a business. The indicators are used to analyze economic and social outcomes, such as informality, corruption, unemployment, and poverty. This annually published report gives policymakers the ability to measure regulatory performance in comparison to other countries, learn from best practices globally, and prioritize reforms. This year's report covers 20 additional countries." |
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Baker & McKenzie borders rank 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 import Ease of shareholder Employing workers rank employment index 0-100 Enforcing contracts rank export days Extent of director Extent of disclosure Firing cost weeks firing index firing index 0-100 FYR Macedonia Gambia Getting credit rank hiring index 0-100 hours index 0-100 import number income per capita 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 PricewaterhouseCoopers 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 weeks of salary
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