IE Economy blog, 18 April 2012, post of Rafael Pampillón
www.doingbusiness.org/rankings (2012 is the 9th publication)
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Argentina is 113th in the world and Spain 44th.
After the expropriation of YPF from Repsol by the Argentinian government, and if the same criteria are used for the analysis in the report of 2013 as those of 2012, Argentina will worsen its position in the table at the end of this year when the data of Doing Business 2013 will be published, which will be updated or conducted with data of the 1st June 2012.
(Extra data:
"Doing Business in a More Transparent World" (2012) (doingbusiness.org/reports)
...Nine years of Doing Business data, together with other data sets, have enabled a growing body of research on how specific areas of business regulation—and regulatory reforms in those areas—relate to social and economic outcomes. Some 873 articles have been published in peer-reviewed academic journals, and about 2,332 working papers are available through Google Scholar...
...Over the past 9 years more than 12,000 professionals in 183 economies have assisted in providing the data that inform the Doing Business indicators...
...In addition, the World Bank Group has been working with a consultative group—including labor lawyers, employer and employee representatives, and experts from civil society, the private sector, the (United Nations) International Labour Organization (ILO) and the OECD— to review the methodology and explore future areas of research...
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Wikipedia "Doing Business ranking":
Moving from the worst one-fourth of nations to the best one-fourth implies a 2.3 percentage point increase in annual growth.)
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