... to $1 billion by
2025.
Indochina Airlines
: Indochina Airlines is the 5th airline in Vietnam, the second private
airline operational in Vietnam. Indochina Airline sold its first tickets ... for a branch license.
Branch status authorizes a foreign business to operate officially in Vietnam, including
invoicing/billing on-shore in local currency and the execution of local contracts. ...
The following Web sites may be valuable resources for U.S. companies interested in
exploring business development opportunities inVietnam s electric power industry.
Electricity of Vietnam...
... of the
Doing Businessin 2006
Report, please visit http://www.doingbusiness.org
and click on “Now Available: DoingBusinessin 2006”.
East Asia and Pacific Re
g
ion
Hiring and Firing Workers: ... following pages present the summary
Doing Business
indicators for the East Asia and Pacific
Region. Further information is available in the full report
Doing Businessin 2006: Creating Jobs
, ... source, supporting
policymakers in designing reform.
The initial data covered in the database and included in this country profile are:
Starting a Business: Entry Regulation
Dealing with Licenses:...
... firing workers, enforcing a contract,
getting credit and closing a business (topics in Doing
Businessin 2004 and 2005)—happened in EU countries.
Reforms in registering property and protecting investors
(new ... over time. DoingBusinessin 2004:
Understanding Regulation presented indicators in 5
topics: starting a business, hiring and firing workers,
enforcing contracts, getting credit and closing a busi-
ness. ... registry
Poor
Middle
income
Rich
21
47
223
499
65
68
14
60
90
60
57
33
Source: DoingBusiness database.
1
The past year has been good for doingbusinessin 58 of
the 145 DoingBusiness sample countries. They simplified
some aspect of business regulations,...
... over time. DoingBusinessin 2004:
Understanding Regulation presented indicators in 5
topics: starting a business, hiring and firing workers,
enforcing contracts, getting credit and closing a busi-
ness. ... affecting DoingBusiness indicators.
Source: DoingBusiness database.
Number of reforms by region
What was reformed
Shares of reforms by topic
Starting
a business
Credit
information
Enforcing ...
contracts
Closing
a business
Hiring
and firing
24%
25%
15%
18%
18%
Reforms
in rich countries
Starting
a business
Credit
information
Enforcing
contracts
Closing
a business
52%
25%
4%
19%
Reforms
in...
... 2009; DoingBusiness 2008; DoingBusiness 2007: How to
Reform; DoingBusinessin 2006: Creating Jobs; DoingBusinessin 2005: Removing Obstacles to Growth;
DoingBusiness in 2004: Understanding ... reports: DoingBusiness 2012: DoingBusinessin a More Transparent
World; DoingBusiness 2011: Making a Dierence for Entrepreneurs; DoingBusiness 2010: Reforming
through Dicult Times; DoingBusiness ... pubrights@worldbank.org.
Doing Businessin Russia 2012 and other subnational and regional DoingBusiness studies can be
downloaded at no charge at www.doingbusiness.org/subnational.
Copies of the Doing Business...
... outcomes.
The first DoingBusiness report covered
5 topics and 133 economies. Doing
DOING BUSINESSIN ITALY 2013ii
THE DOINGBUSINESS WEBSITE
Doing Businessin Italy 2013 report
http://www.doingbusiness.org/italy
Current ... and research papers
underlying DoingBusiness
http://www.doingbusiness.org/Methodology
http://www.doingbusiness.org/Research
Download reports
Access to DoingBusiness reports as well as
subnational ... report
http://www.doingbusiness.org/italy
Current features
News on the DoingBusiness project
http://www.doingbusiness.org
Doing Business reforms
Short reform summaries
http://www.doingbusiness.org/Reforms
Methodology and research
The...
... PM
DOING BUSINESS 2012ii
THE DOINGBUSINESS WEBSITE
Current features
News on the DoingBusiness project
http://www.doingbusiness.org
Rankings
How economies rank—from 1 to 183
http://www.doingbusiness.org/Rankings
Doing ... DB2004
http://www.doingbusiness.org/Custom-Query
Methodology and research
The methodology and research papers underlying
Doing Business
http://www.doingbusiness.org/Methodology
http://www.doingbusiness.org/Research
Download ... electricity
indicators
This year’s ease of doingbusiness ranking
includes getting electricity as a new topic.
The getting electricity indicators were intro-
duced as a pilot inDoingBusiness 2010...
... climbing the learn-
ing curve. And so DoingBusinessin China For Dummies was born.
We think (and hope) that you can find this book useful as a starting point and
reference in your China business ... present in China, see Part II.
Getting down to business the Chinese way
When you first start doingbusinessin China, you may think you’ve landed on
another planet! But armed with an understanding ... basics: Reviewing the business license 312
Practicing DD for joint ventures 312
Doing DD for hiring individuals 313
Controlling Financial Risks 313
Counting beans differently 314
Balancing an out-of-balance...
... of business topics including
business planning, marketing and accessing
nancing.
Small business owners are assisted in exploring
the feasibility of their business ideas, assessing
their business ... with industry news by taking
courses and by reading industry magazines
and related publications.
For more information visit www.NewJerseyBusiness.gov
13
Starting a Business
Costs of Doing Business
Industrial ... online by using
the Electronic Filing System, EFS.
12
Starting a Business
Financial Information
Business Employment Incentive Program
(BEIP)
BEIP is the incentive tool for encouraging
business...
... convenient and less intimi-
dating to people than having to travel distances to the company
offices during business hours to file a formal complaint.
Maintaining a regular presence in
the local communities ... points of
contact. Hire people with the right skills, training, and disposition
for community liaison work and get them into the field as quickly
as possible. Maintaining a regular presence in ... gain a genuine
understanding of the impacts of the project and the proposed mit-
igation measures and benefits. Ways to do this include translating
project information into the appropriate indigenous...
... COVER
The DoingBusiness data have key limita-
tions that should be kept in mind by those
who use them.
Limited in scope
The DoingBusiness indicators are limited
in scope. In particular:
Ė DoingBusiness ... started in
business and where good firms can invest
and grow, thereby generating more jobs.
In this sense DoingBusiness values good
rules as a key to social inclusion.
In eect, DoingBusiness ... value
4.1%
17.2%4.9%
4.2%
12.9%4.4%
2.4%
6.6%
5.4%
9ABOUT DOING BUSINESS
Businessin 2013 covers 11 topics and 185
economies. Ten topics are included in the
aggregate ranking on the ease of doing
business, and 9 in the distance to...
... e initial goal remains:
to provide an objective basis for under-
standing and improving the regulatory
environment for business.
WHAT DOINGBUSINESSIN
NIGERIA 2010 COVERS
Doing Businessin ... sets of indicators
in DoingBusinessin Nigeria 2010 are current
as of January 2010.
METHODOLOGY
e DoingBusinessin Nigeria 2010 data are
collected in a standardized way, following the
methodology ... publication of DoingBusiness 2010: Reforming through Dicult Times the cost was 76.7% of income per capita.
Source: DoingBusiness database.
FIGURE 2.4
Time and cost to open a businessin selected...
... starting a business, hiring and firing
workers, enforcing contracts, getting credit, and closing
a business. Over the next two years, Doing Business
will extend the coverage of topics. DoingBusiness ... viii
Overview xi
1 Building New Indicators of
Business Regulation 1
Doing Business Methodology 2
Other Indicators in a Crowded Field 7
Notes 15
2 Starting a Business 17
How Easy Is Business Entry? 18
Are ... very beginning.
The minimum capital requirement is the amount
an entrepreneur needs to deposit in a bank account to
Doing Businessin 2004
4
TLFeBOOK
obtain a business license. The business can...