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Apec's Ease of Doing Business-Interim Assessment

By: Carlos Kuriyama and Azul Ogazón

...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... ...ance in preparing this report and the Economic Committee, particularly its Friends of the Chair on Ease of Doing Business, for valuable comments and ... ... 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... ...g that the cost of starting a business is already very low compared to most other regions, which makes it more challenging to achieve greater progre... ...nd; Italy; Latvia; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Netherlands; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Slovakia; Slovenia; Spain; Sweden; United Kingdom. Latin America... ...pan; Korea, Rep.; Luxembourg; Netherlands; New Zealand; Norway; Poland; Portugal; Slovakia; Slovenia; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; United Kingdom; Un...

...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...

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