Friday, May 24, 2013

Small Businesses Doing Cross Border Business in 2013

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The World Bank Group publishes the Doing Business 2013: Smarter Regulations for Small and Medium-Size Enterprises which assesses regulations affecting domestic firms in 185 economies and ranks the economies in 10 areas of business regulation, such as starting a business, resolving insolvency and trading across borders.

The report marks the 10th edition of the Doing Business series. Over the past decade, these reports have recorded nearly 2,000 regulatory reforms implemented by 180 economies.

One key finding out of several:
•  Besides Poland, nine other economies are recognized as having the most improved ease of doing business across several areas of regulation as measured by the report: Sri Lanka, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Burundi, Costa Rica, Mongolia, Greece, Serbia, and Kazakhstan.
Learn more here.

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1 comment:

Heather Stone said...

Thanks for this great resource, Laurel. I'm sure any small business owner who has even thought about doing business internationally will want to get their hands on it. So nice to see this post also shared via the BizSugar community.