Recently there was an HN link to a list of the best countries to do business - http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings. When

Recently there was an HN link to a list of the best countries to do business - http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings. When I looked at that list, I remember thinking that the one column which was missing was corruption. It was definitely a factor for two companies I worked for when they set up operations overseas and jumped through licensing and regulatory hurdles.