国际英语新闻:WB report: World economies set new record in business regulation reform
The report, "Doing Business 2010: Reforming through Difficult Times", recorded 287 reforms between June 2008 and May 2009, up 20 percent from the previous year.
Reformers around the world focused on making it easier to start and operate businesses, strengthening property rights and improving commercial dispute resolution and bankruptcy procedures.
"Business regulation can affect how well small and midsize firms cope with the crisis and seize opportunities when recovery begins," said Penelope Brook, Acting Vice President for Financial and Private Sector Development for the World Bank Group.
"The quality of business regulation helps determine how easy it is to reorganize troubled firms to help them survive difficult times, to rebuild when demand rebounds, and to get new businesses started," he said.
Singapore, a consistent reformer, is the top-ranked economy on the ease of doing business for the fourth year in a row, with New Zealand as runner-up.
But most of the action occurred in developing economies. Two-thirds of the reforms recorded in the report were in low-and-lower-middle-income economies.
For the first time a Sub-Saharan African economy, Rwanda, is the world's top reformer of business regulation, making it easier to start businesses, register property, protect investors, trade across borders and access credit.
Reformers were particularly active in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, according to the report.
This year, there were four new reformers among the top 10: Liberia, the United Arab Emirates, Tajikistan and Moldova.
Others include Rwanda, Egypt, Belarus, Macedonia, Kyrgyzstan and Colombia. Colombia and Egypt have been top global reformers in four of the past seven years.
Doing Business analyzes regulations that apply to an economy's businesses during their life cycles, including start-up and operations, trading across borders, paying taxes, and closing a business, according to a statement released by the World Bank.
Meanwhile, the report does not measure all aspects of the business environment that matter to firms and investors. For example, it does not measure security, macroeconomic stability, corruption, skill level, or the strength of financial systems.
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