IFC news - Online Map Shows Ease of Doing Business in 175 Countries

Via IFC. (As our readers are widely spread out over the world)

The World Bank Group has created the "Doing Business Map," a visual learning tool to complement the Doing Business database, which provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 175 economies.

Take a trip around the world to discover how easy (or difficult) it is to do business in various developing countries. Click on green, yellow, or red placemarks to learn more about each country. Countries marked with a star were the top 10 reformers in 2005/06, the timeframe of the most recent Doing Business report.

For more information visit the Doing Business Map site.

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Futhermore you might like to compare it to:

Map of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita for the year 2006. Source: IMF (April 2007)

This wikipedia article includes two lists of countries of the world sorted by their gross domestic product (GDP) at purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita: according to the IMF and the CIA World Factbook.

1			Luxembourg	80,471	2005
2			Ireland	44,087	2005
3			Norway	43,574	2005
4			United States	43,444	2005

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The Human Development Index

2006 UN Human Development Index (7.8MB)

1. Norway 0.965
2. Iceland 0.960
3. Australia 0.957
4. Ireland 0.956

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Does your personal experience of doing business in certain countries correlate with the above? Any comments on the methodologies used above?