2005 Global Business Operations Report: Removing Obstacles to Economic Growth

Author: World Bank Publications
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Publication Date: 2005-05-02
Features: The "Doing Business 2005: Enabling and Restricting Enterprise Activity" is the second in a series of annual reports that examine the scope and manner of various regulations that enhance and restrict business activities. New quantitative indicators for the business regulatory environment and its enforcement in 145 countries, from Albania to Zimbabwe, can be compared. "Doing Business 2004: Understanding Regulations" introduced indicators on five topics: starting a business, hiring and firing workers, enforcing contracts, closing a business, and getting credit. "Doing Business 2005: Enabling and Restricting Enterprise Activity" 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 reforms are effective.