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Apec's Ease of Doing Business-Interim Assessment

By: Carlos Kuriyama and Azul Ogazón

... Interim Assessment A collaborative report between the APEC Economic Committee and the APEC Policy Support Unit APEC Policy Support Unit Octob... ...upport Unit October 2011 Prepared by: Carlos Kuriyama and Azul Ogazón Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ... ...Unit October 2011 Prepared by: Carlos Kuriyama and Azul Ogazón Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Policy ... ...ommons Attribution-NonCommercial- ShareAlike 3.0 Singapore License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-s... ....org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/sg/. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of APEC Memb... ... 7 The report also compares the performance of the APEC region vis-à-vis other regions or economic blocks to show how well the APEC region is doi... ...nificantly from 29.1 to 25.5. APEC’s improvement was the second largest among all regions, slightly below the progress by South Asia. S... ...tudies on Peru and Thailand are expected to be completed soon. Fostering SMEs in Australia Australia has been recognized as one of the best plac... ...art a business as it only requires two procedures and two days. Nevertheless, the Australian government recognizes that there is always more to be d...

...APEC Leaders in 2009 endorsed an APEC-wide improvement of 25 percent by 2015 in five key areas of doing business: 1) Starting a Business; 2) Getting Credit; 3) Enforcing Contracts; 4) Trading Across Borders; and 5) Dealing with Permits, with an interim 5 percent improvement by 20...

This report is a collaborative effort between the APEC Economic Committee and the APEC Policy Support Unit.

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