Saturday, 19 April 2008

The Doing Business database

There's an interesting database on doing business administered by the World Bank at http://www.doingbusiness.org/. It grades countries according to an index of how easy it is for businesses to operate in them.

Some of the index components may be viewed as double-edged; the ease of firing workers is one of the determinants of how high a country is ranked, for example. Other components are more unambiguously related to efficiency, such as the number of days to register a company, and information on them could be useful to a government looking to streamline its dealings with companies.

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