Doing Business 2011
Making a Difference for Entrepreneurs - Comparing Business Regulation in 183 Economies
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Doing Business 2011
Making a Difference for Entrepreneurs - Comparing Business Regulation in 183 Economies
About This Book
Doing Business 2011: making a difference for entrepreneurs is the eighth in a series of annual reports investigating regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 183 economies, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, over time. A set of regulations affecting 11 areas of the life of a business's are covered: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and closing a business. Data in Doing Business 2011 are current as of June 1, 2010. The indicators are used to analyze economic outcomes and identify what reforms have worked, where, and why. The paper includes the following headings: overview, starting a business, dealing with construction permits, employing workers, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, and closing a business.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Executive summary
- About Doing Business: measuring for impact
- Starting a business
- Dealing with construction permits
- Registering property
- Getting credit
- Protecting investors
- Paying taxes
- Trading across borders
- Enforcing contracts
- Closing a business
- Annex: pilot indicators on getting electricity
- Annex: employing workers
- References
- Data notes
- Summaries of Doing Business reforms in 2009/10
- Country tables
- Acknowledgments