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There's a fantastic spreadsheet you can get from the World Bank website DoingBusiness.org: http://doingbusiness.org/documents/Simulator_2010.xls http://doingbu
by patrickk 17y ago
There's a fantastic spreadsheet you can get from the World Bank website DoingBusiness.org:
http://doingbusiness.org/documents/Simulator_2010.xls http://doingbusiness.org/documents/Simulator_2010.xls
You can select which countries you want to compare in the first column.
For example, I selected the US, UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Spain and Italy just to compare them.
The US:
4th easiest in the world for ease of doing business. Setting up a business takes 6 procedures, 6 days and 0.7% of per capita income.
UK:
5th easiest in world, 6 procedures, 13 days and 0.7% of per capita income.
Ireland:
7th easiest in world, 7 procedures, 13 days and 0.3% of per capita income.
Germany:
25th easiest in world, 9 procedures, 18 days and 4.7% of per capita income.
France:
31st easiest in world, 5 procedures, 7 days and 0.9% of per capita income.
Spain:
62nd easiest in world, 10 procedures, 47 days and 15.0% of per capita income.
Italy:
78th easiest in world, 6 procedures, 10 days and 17.9% of per capita income.
All these countries except Spain and Italy require no minimum capital.
Btw, I came across this great website in a footnote from a pg essay.
- davidw 17y agoInteresting - do they specify anywhere what kind of business? Italy, for instance, has several kinds of companies that are "companies of persons" instead of "companies of capital", which are cheaper and easier to set up... but not very good from various legal points of view.
- patrickk 17y agoIt doesn't specify what type of business in Italy in the spreadsheet, but two more interesting facts from the spreadsheet: Cost to export a container (US$ per container): UK(island nation disconnected from mainland Europe, has rail tunnel to France): 1030 Ireland(island nation disconnected from mainland Europe): 1109 Italy(connected to mainland Europe by rail and road): 1231 Bureaucracy in Italy adds more cost to exporting a container than a sea/air voyage does from the UK or Ireland. If this kind of thing interests you, then perhaps check out Eurostat, the EU body for statistics, or the OECD website etc. I know that here in Ireland a body called the Central Statistics Office maintains that kind of data on Irish business, maybe there is an Italian body that does the same in Italy?
- varjag 17y agoSea transportation is cheaper than by truck. (But of course, Italy has the option for sea transportation as well, so it's not that)