Publisher's Synopsis
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 2008updates all 10 sets of indicators, ranks countries on their overall ease of doing business, and analyses reforms to business regulation - identifying which countries are improving their business environment the most and which ones slipped. The indicators are used to analyse economic outcomes and identify what reforms have worked, where and why.
Doing Business 2008focuses on how complex business regulations dampen investment, growth and job creation in all businesses, and especially opportunities for women entrepreneurs.
