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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783579503321

Titolo

Doing Business in 2005 : : Removing Obstacles to Growth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : The World Bank, , 2004

ISBN

9786610085620

1-280-08562-2

9781417544635

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 pages)

Collana

Doing Business

Disciplina

338.5/1

Soggetti

Trade regulation

Commercial law

Trade regulation - Law and legislation

Industrial management

Business enterprises - Government policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A copublication of the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation and Oxford University Press."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-78).

Nota di contenuto

Removing obstacles to growth : an overview -- Measuring with impact -- Starting a business -- Hiring and firing workers -- Registering property -- Getting credit -- Protecting investors -- Enforcing contracts -- Closing a business -- References -- Data notes -- Doing business indicators -- Country tables -- Acknowledgments.

Sommario/riassunto

Doing Business in 2005: Removing Obstacles to Growth is the second in a series of annual reports investigating the scope and manner of regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. New quantitative indicators on business regulations and their enforcement can be compared across 145 countries-from Albania to Zimbabwe-and over time. The previous report, Doing Business in 2004: Understanding Regulation, presented indicators in five main topics: starting a business, hiring and firing workers, enforcing contracts, getting credit and closing a business. Doing Business in 2005 updates these measures and adds another two sets: registering property and protecting investors. The indicators are used to analyze economic and social outcomes, such as productivity, investment, informality,



corruption, unemployment, and poverty, and identify what reforms have worked, where and why. In Doing Business in 2005, you will also find answers to such questions as: Which are the Top 10 reformer countries since last year? Which are the Top 20 economies for doing business? As well as which countries implemented more harmful regulations? Doing Business is a comprehensive resource that no investor, policymaker, or economic advisor should be without.