Doing Business 2018 : Reforming to Create Jobs

Fifteen in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2018 measures aspects of regulation affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity: • Starting a business • Dealing with construction permits • Getting electricity • Registering property • Getting...

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Language:English
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2017
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Online Access:https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/724161614665080092/doing-business-2018-reforming-to-create-jobs
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spelling okr-10986-286082021-04-23T14:04:49Z Doing Business 2018 : Reforming to Create Jobs World Bank ANNUAL RANKING BUSINESS INDICATORS BUSINESS LAWS BUSINESS REGULATION DOING BUSINESS DOMESTIC SMES LOCAL ENTREPRENEURS EASE OF DOING BUSINESS DOMESTIC FIRMS LAWS IMPACTING BUSINESS DISTANCE TO FRONTIER BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT REGULATION Fifteen in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2018 measures aspects of regulation affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity: • Starting a business • Dealing with construction permits • Getting electricity • Registering property • Getting credit • Protecting minority investors • Paying taxes • Trading across borders • Enforcing contracts • Resolving insolvency These areas are included in the distance to frontier score and ease of doing business ranking. Doing Business also measures features of labor market regulation, which is not included in these two measures. The report updates all indicators as of June 1, 2017, ranks economies on their overall “ease of doing business”, and analyzes reforms to business regulation – identifying which economies are strengthening their business environment the most. Doing Business illustrates how reforms in business regulations are being used to analyze economic outcomes for domestic entrepreneurs and for the wider economy. It is a flagship product produced in partnership by the World Bank Group that garners worldwide attention on regulatory barriers to entrepreneurship. More than 137 economies have used the Doing Business indicators to shape reform agendas and monitor improvements on the ground. In addition, the Doing Business data has generated over 2,182 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals since its inception. 2017-10-30T17:20:20Z 2017-10-30T17:20:20Z 2018 Book https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/724161614665080092/doing-business-2018-reforming-to-create-jobs 978-1-4648-1146-3 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28608 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Publication
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topic ANNUAL RANKING
BUSINESS INDICATORS
BUSINESS LAWS
BUSINESS REGULATION
DOING BUSINESS
DOMESTIC SMES
LOCAL ENTREPRENEURS
EASE OF DOING BUSINESS
DOMESTIC FIRMS
LAWS IMPACTING BUSINESS
DISTANCE TO FRONTIER
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
REGULATION
spellingShingle ANNUAL RANKING
BUSINESS INDICATORS
BUSINESS LAWS
BUSINESS REGULATION
DOING BUSINESS
DOMESTIC SMES
LOCAL ENTREPRENEURS
EASE OF DOING BUSINESS
DOMESTIC FIRMS
LAWS IMPACTING BUSINESS
DISTANCE TO FRONTIER
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
REGULATION
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Doing Business 2018 : Reforming to Create Jobs
description Fifteen in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2018 measures aspects of regulation affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity: • Starting a business • Dealing with construction permits • Getting electricity • Registering property • Getting credit • Protecting minority investors • Paying taxes • Trading across borders • Enforcing contracts • Resolving insolvency These areas are included in the distance to frontier score and ease of doing business ranking. Doing Business also measures features of labor market regulation, which is not included in these two measures. The report updates all indicators as of June 1, 2017, ranks economies on their overall “ease of doing business”, and analyzes reforms to business regulation – identifying which economies are strengthening their business environment the most. Doing Business illustrates how reforms in business regulations are being used to analyze economic outcomes for domestic entrepreneurs and for the wider economy. It is a flagship product produced in partnership by the World Bank Group that garners worldwide attention on regulatory barriers to entrepreneurship. More than 137 economies have used the Doing Business indicators to shape reform agendas and monitor improvements on the ground. In addition, the Doing Business data has generated over 2,182 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals since its inception.
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title Doing Business 2018 : Reforming to Create Jobs
title_short Doing Business 2018 : Reforming to Create Jobs
title_full Doing Business 2018 : Reforming to Create Jobs
title_fullStr Doing Business 2018 : Reforming to Create Jobs
title_full_unstemmed Doing Business 2018 : Reforming to Create Jobs
title_sort doing business 2018 : reforming to create jobs
publisher Washington, DC: World Bank
publishDate 2017
url https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/724161614665080092/doing-business-2018-reforming-to-create-jobs
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