The World Bank compiles a ranking of the easiest countries from which to run a business. The rank counties on categories such as: protecting investors (New Zealand is #1), enforcing contracts (Hong Kong is #1), employing workers (USA and Singapore tied for #1). The overall ranking for 2007:
- Singapore – 2006 #2
- New Zealand – 2006 #1
- United States – 2006 #3
- Hong Kong, China – 2006 #7
- Denmark – 2006 #8
- United Kingdom – 2006 #9
- Canada – 2006 #4
- Ireland
- Australia – 2006 #6
- Iceland
Related: Countries Which are Easiest for Doing Business 2006 – Top 10 Manufacturing Countries – Farming Without Subsidies in New Zealand – Growing Size of non-USA Economies
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The USA continues to be by far the largest manufacturing in the world. And one important reason is the contributions provided by science and engineering (fed by strong science and engineering schools)…
Generating significant financial value is something done by a very small percentage of start-ups, but a handful that do generate a lot of value…
protecting investors (New Zealand 1st, Singapore 2nd, Hong Kong 3rd, Malaysia 4th, USA 5th), enforcing contracts (Singapore 1, Hong Kong 2, USA 6, China 18)…