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Doing Business in 2005 - Removing Obstacles to Growth
Autor/es: Banco Mundial
Lugar, edición, obra: Copublication of The World Bank and Oxford University Press (12 págs. - pdf)
Año: 2005
Doing Business in 2005 is the second in a series of annual reports investigating the scope and manner of regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. New quantitative indicators on business regulations and their enforcement can be compared across 145 countries -from Albania to Zimbabwe- and over time. Doing Business in 2004: Understanding Regulation presented indicators in 5 topics: starting a business, hiring and firing workers, enforcing contracts, getting credit and closing a business. Doing Business in 2005 updates these measures and adds another two sets: registering property and protecting investors. The indicators are used to analyze economic and social outcomes, such as productivity, investment, informality, corruption, unemployment, and poverty, and identify what reforms have worked, where and why.
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Starting a business - Argentina (Doing Business in 2005 - Removing Obstacles to Growth)
Autor/es: Banco Mundial
Lugar, edición, obra: (12 págs. - pdf)
Año: 2005
Doing Business in 2005 is the second in a series of annual reports investigating the scope and manner of regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business in 2004: Understanding Regulation presented indicators in 5 topics: starting a business, hiring and firing workers, enforcing contracts, getting credit and closing a business. Doing Business in 2005 updates these measures and adds another two sets: registering property and protecting investors. The indicators are used to analyze economic and social outcomes, such as productivity, investment, informality, corruption, unemployment, and poverty, and identify what reforms have worked, where and why.
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2005 world development report - A Better Investment Climate for Everyone
Autor/es: Banco Mundial
Lugar, edición, obra: Copublication of The World Bank and Oxford University Press (288 págs. - pdf)
Año: 2004
This World Development Report is about creating opportunities for people to escape from poverty and improve their living standards. It is about creating a climate in which firms and entrepreneurs of all types -from farmers and microenterprises to local manufacturing concerns and multinationals- have opportunities and incentives to invest productively, create jobs, and expand, and thereby contribute to growth and poverty reduction. The Report thus deals with one of the central challenges of development.
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Corruption in South Asia Insights & Benchmarks from Citizen Feedback Surveys in Five Countries
Autor/es: Gopakumar Krishnan Thamp
Lugar, edición, obra: Transparency International - This report was compiled and written by Gopakumar Krishnan Thampi, Programme Manager at the Transparency International Secretariat. Jana Kotalik, Press & Public Relations Officer at the Transparency Internacional Secretariat provided valuable editorial support in preparing the report. (46 págs. - pdf)
Año: Diciembre 2002
It is the first
regional survey of its kind in South Asia, measuring the extent, spread and
intensity of corruption in seven key sectors from a user’s perspective. Apart
from highlighting interesting patterns of corrupt practices and quantifying the
phenomenon, the survey also provides useful benchmarks to measure
progress and track changes over time. The major findings of the survey
include: Education, health and power emerge as the three most commonly
used public services across the region from the seven services probed.
For a large percentage of the population, public institutions are the sole
providers of these services. The police is generally perceived to be the most corrupt sector in four
out of five countries in the region. In Nepal, it is perceived to be the
third most corrupt after land administration and customs. However, experiences of actual users of services highlight that the
police and the judiciary come out as the two most corruption prone
sectors, followed by land administration and education. Access to public services is a major issue for vast numbers of the
population in all five countries surveyed, especially in Bangladesh,
Pakistan and Sri Lanka. This finding also implies that the poor in these
countries face the danger of exclusion from public services due to the
high artificial barriers, economic and otherwise. The survey finds petty corruption to be endemic in all key public
sectors in the five countries, with users reporting moderate to high
levels of corruption in their regular interaction with public services. Middle and lower level functionaries are identified as the key facilitators
of corruption in all sectors probed. An analysis of the nature of corruption finds extortion to be the most
prevalent form. Evidence of the economic costs incurred due to corruption suggests
high levels of income erosion given the high frequency of bribery and
the large sums paid. A lack of accountability and monopoly power are quoted as the major
factors contributing to corruption in public services.
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