For flying this flag against so much other World Bank-abetted economic damage, the Doing Business report deserves to stay in business.
The World Bank, in its 2011 Doing Business Report, finds that Afghanistan is a better place to do business than Venezuela.
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Eastern Europe's Georgia was last year's top reformer, according to the World Bank's 2007 Doing Business report, which ranks countries based on regulatory reforms that enhance business activity.
Late in the afternoon on October 22, The World Bank published its 2013 Doing Business Report , a study that rates 185 economies according to 11 indicators relating to the strength of legal institutions relevant to business regulation and the complexity and cost of regulatory processes.
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This year's "Doing Business" report, published last week, reaches a few intriguing conclusions.
Each year the World Bank comes out with an intriguing report, Doing Business.
China is ranked a dismal 91st out of 185 countries in this year's report, but the campaign against Doing Business isn't merely a case of shooting the messenger.
In 2012, the House Intelligence Committee produced a report reaching similar findings and advising all U.S. companies against doing business with those companies.
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But potential investors may ask what are the risks of owning a company that faces regulatory roadblocks to doing business in the U.S. and other countries, given the serious claims in the House report.
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