BUS2108 Global Business Environment: Country Competitiveness

Doing Business provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement in different countries, such as starting a business, dealing with licenses, employing workers, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, as well as closing a business. The Doing Business indicators are comparable across 189 economies. They indicate the regulatory costs of business and can be used to analyze specific regulations that enhance or constrain investment, productivity, and growth.

The Economic Rankings ranks economies on their ease of doing business. By comparing different rankings, this can help in making final decision in choosing an appropriate manufacturing location for the firm.

Benchmarking business regulations are provided by World Bank. The site offers sufficient information for those who want to start business in anywhere of the world.

Special Highlights

• Explore Topics:
  • Starting a Business
  • Dealing with Construction Permits
  • Getting Electricity
  • Registering Property
  • Getting Credit
  • Protecting Investors
  • Paying Taxes
  • Trading Across Borders
  • Enforcing Contracts
  • Resolving Contracts
  • Employing Workers

• Get Full Data:
  Create your own custom dataset of main indices in this page.
  Link to Get Full Data

• Get Reports & Papers:
  Reports are available for download.
  Link to Get Reports & Papers

Link to Doing Business

The IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY) is a comprehensive annual report on the competitiveness of nations and ranking. It analyses how a nation’s environment creates and sustains the competitiveness of enterprises. The yearbook benchmarks the performance of 60 countries based on 338 criteria measuring different facets of competitiveness.

Competitiveness factors and criteria include:

• Economic performance
• Government efficiency
• Business efficiency
• Infrastructure

In addition, the World Competitiveness Yearbook provides World Competitiveness Scoreboard of overall ranking of 60 countries, customized rankings split by population size, by wealth or by regions, country profiles and statistical tables.

Tables and data are very comprehensive in this World Competitiveness Yearbook. It is a very good resource in comparing economies' competencies.

Website of World Competitiveness Yearbook


The Library holds electronic version (CDROM) of the World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY):

• Electronic version (CDROM):
  Coverage: 2002-
  Call Number: HF1414 .W67
  Available at the Service Counter
  Link to Library Record
   
• Electronic version (ONLINE):
  Coverage: 1989-
  Available at: http://proxy1.library.ln.edu.hk:2048/login?url=https://worldcompetitiveness.imd.org/
  (Lingnan only)

Click here for a list of Rankings -- Country Level from Global Edge.