Overcoming Obstacles for Economic Growth: 2005 Global Business Operations Report

Author: Yan Qing Yan Qing
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: The "2005 Global Business Enterprise Operations Report" is the second in a series of annual reports that examine the scope and methods of various regulations governing business activities. New quantitative indicators for the business regulations and their enforcement in 145 countries, from Albania to Zimbabwe, can be compared. The "2004 Global Business Enterprise Operations Report: Understanding Rules" introduced indicators on five topics: starting a business, hiring and firing employees, enforcing contracts, closing businesses, and obtaining credit. The "2005 Global Business Enterprise Operations Report" updates these indicators and adds two new sets of indicators: registering property and protecting investors. These indicators are used to analyze economic and social outcomes such as productivity, investment, formality, corruption, unemployment, and poverty, identify the results of reforms, and determine which countries and reasons are effective in reform.