Doing Business 2008

World Bank, World Bank0821372319, 9780821372319, 9780821372326

Regulations 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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Table of contents :
Contents……Page 5
Overview……Page 7
Starting a business……Page 15
Dealing with licenses……Page 20
Employing workers……Page 25
Registering property……Page 30
Getting credit……Page 35
Protecting investors……Page 40
Paying taxes……Page 45
Trading across borders……Page 50
Enforcing contracts……Page 55
Closing a business……Page 60
What to expect……Page 65
References……Page 69
Data notes……Page 73
Ease of doing business……Page 88
Doing Business indicators……Page 93
Country tables……Page 109
Acknowledgments……Page 169