Doing Business 2014 : Understanding Regulations for Small and Medium-Size Enterprises.
Title:
Doing Business 2014 : Understanding Regulations for Small and Medium-Size Enterprises.
Author:
Bank, World.
ISBN:
9780821399835
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (1067 pages)
Series:
Doing Business
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Overview -- About Doing Business: measuring for impact -- Research on the effects of business regulations -- Case studies -- Why are minimum capital requirements a concern for entrepreneurs? -- What role should risk-based inspections play in construction? -- Tackling high electricity connection costs: Trinidad and Tobago's new approach -- Implementing electronic tax filing and payments in Malaysia -- Implementing trade single windows in Singapore, Colombia and Azerbaijan -- Improving court efficiency: the Republic of Korea's e-court experience -- Topic notes -- Starting a business -- Dealing with construction permits -- Getting electricity -- Registering property -- Getting credit -- Protecting investors -- Paying taxes -- Trading across borders -- Enforcing contracts -- Resolving insolvency -- Annex: employing workers -- References -- Data notes -- Ease of doing business and distance to frontier -- Summaries of Doing Business reforms in 2012/13 -- Country tables -- Employing workers data -- Acknowledgments.
Abstract:
Eleventh in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 189 economies, Doing Business 2014 measures regulations affecting 11 areas of everyday business activity:Starting a businessDealing with construction permitsGetting electricityRegistering propertyGetting creditProtecting investorsPaying taxesTrading across bordersEnforcing contractsClosing a businessEmploying workersThe report updates all indicators as of June 1, 2013, 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.The Doing Business reports illustrate how reforms in business regulations are being used to analyze economic outcomes for domestic entrepreneurs and for the wider economy.Doing Business is a flagship product by the World Bank and IFC that garners worldwide attention on regulatory barriers to entrepreneurship. More than 60 economies use the Doing Business indicators to shape reform agendas and monitor improvements on the ground. In addition, the Doing Business data has generated over 870 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals since its inception.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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