Wednesday, September 09, 2009
[IWS] World Bank/IFC: DOING BUSINESS 2010: REFORMING THROUGH DIFFICULT TIMES [9 September 2009]
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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World Bank/IFC
Doing Business 2010: Reforming through Difficult Times [9 September 2009]
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:22301788~pagePK:64257043~piPK:437376~theSitePK:4607,00.html
or
http://www.doingbusiness.org/
or
OVERVIEW
http://www.doingbusiness.org/Documents/DB10_Overview.pdf
[full-text, 9 pages]
and
This Years RANKINGS
http://www.doingbusiness.org/economyrankings/
and
Additional Releases at
http://www.doingbusiness.org/media/
September 9, 2009 A record 131 economies around the globe reformed business regulation in 2008/09, according to the IFCWorld Bank Doing Business 2010 report.
That is more than 70 percent of the 183 economies covered by the report the largest share in any year since the annual report was first published in 2004. And this progress came against the backdrop of a global economic crisis.
Doing Business 2010: Reforming through Difficult Times recorded 287 reforms between June 2008 and May 2009, up 20 percent from the previous year. Reformers around the world focused on making it easier to start and operate businesses, strengthening property rights, and improving commercial dispute resolution and bankruptcy procedures.
Reforms measured by Doing Business can play an important role in enabling countries to recover from the economic crisis. The financial and economic crisis has become a jobs crisis in developing countries, and SME growth offers the best prospects for job creation.
"The quality of business regulation helps determine how easy it is to reorganize troubled firms to help them survive difficult times, to rebuild when demand rebounds, and to get new businesses started," says Penelope Brook, Acting Vice President for Financial and Private Sector Development for the World Bank Group.
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This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
World Bank/IFC
Doing Business 2010: Reforming through Difficult Times [9 September 2009]
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:22301788~pagePK:64257043~piPK:437376~theSitePK:4607,00.html
or
http://www.doingbusiness.org/
or
OVERVIEW
http://www.doingbusiness.org/Documents/DB10_Overview.pdf
[full-text, 9 pages]
and
This Years RANKINGS
http://www.doingbusiness.org/economyrankings/
and
Additional Releases at
http://www.doingbusiness.org/media/
September 9, 2009 A record 131 economies around the globe reformed business regulation in 2008/09, according to the IFCWorld Bank Doing Business 2010 report.
That is more than 70 percent of the 183 economies covered by the report the largest share in any year since the annual report was first published in 2004. And this progress came against the backdrop of a global economic crisis.
Doing Business 2010: Reforming through Difficult Times recorded 287 reforms between June 2008 and May 2009, up 20 percent from the previous year. Reformers around the world focused on making it easier to start and operate businesses, strengthening property rights, and improving commercial dispute resolution and bankruptcy procedures.
Reforms measured by Doing Business can play an important role in enabling countries to recover from the economic crisis. The financial and economic crisis has become a jobs crisis in developing countries, and SME growth offers the best prospects for job creation.
"The quality of business regulation helps determine how easy it is to reorganize troubled firms to help them survive difficult times, to rebuild when demand rebounds, and to get new businesses started," says Penelope Brook, Acting Vice President for Financial and Private Sector Development for the World Bank Group.
______________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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