Doing Business is a guide for evaluating regulations that directly impact economic growth, downloading underlying laws, making cross-country comparisons, and identifying good practice reforms. The Doing Business project provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 178 economies and selected cities at the sub-national and regional level.
Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business, from 1 – 178, with first place being the best. A high ranking on t more...
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'This paper examines the links between the risk of conflict and the production and trade of agricultural and marine commodities. It does so using a series of case studies: cocoa in Côte d’Ivoire, bananas and subsequently fisheries in Somalia, and cotton in Central Asia. Much like the traditional conflict resources (oil, diamonds, timber, minerals, etc.), there is strong evidence that fished and farmed commodities can also be (mis)used in such a way that their production and trade contribute t more...
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'Thus key to growth strategies that are inclusive and sustainable is the focus on increasing productivity in the primary (agricultural) job sector and moving employment out of the primary sector into sectors of the economy that pay higher wages. These sectors may vary across countries and the potential benefits of alternative forms of intervention may be affected by the prevailing conditions at county level. Identifying these sectors, the factors that limit the creation of productive employment more...
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'According to the report, informality has gained increasing attention as a possible drag on growth and social well-being, and as a force corrosive to the integrity of the region’s societies. To reverse this trend, policymakers could focus on improving the conditions that promote formal sector productivity and addressing the barriers, costs and benefits for informal firms and workers to participate in the formal sector.'
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'A specter is haunting Europe (and not only Europe)—the specter of stagflation. The world has not seen this ominous combination of slow (or negative) growth and high inflation rates since the oil-price shocks of the 1970s and early 1980s. Several parallel developments now blend into a mix of factors that has policymakers shudder of the prospect of having to exorcise this specter again. Macroeconomic instruments only allow one of the two outcomes to be addressed, at the expense of the other. In more...
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'The Reason Foundation report highlights numerous technological improvements expected to be implemented as part of the Federal Aviation Administration's NextGen efforts, which will completely revamp the nation's air traffic control system over the next two decades.'
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'iProvo's total losses are likely to exceed $10 million by the end of this fiscal year - and that figure doesn't include the $39.5 million borrowed to launch the project, most of which still needs to be paid back. The Reason Foundation report says Provo 'faces the dilemma of continuing to fund iProvo with no break-even point in sight, or it can sell and recoup as much of its investment as it can.' '
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