Country Profiles - German Federal Statistical Office
Hartmut Buettner @ May 27, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The Federal Statistical Office regularly publishes country profiles (7 pages as PDF-files) for the G-20 advanced industrial and emerging countries based on official international statistics. They give an overview of the main statistical indicators including economy and finance, demography, social conditions and the environment.
The latest editions are those of the Republic of Korea 2009 (South [...]
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Bribe Payers Index 2008
Hartmut Buettner @ February 7, 2009 # One Comment
Transparency International (TI) looks at the so-called supply side of corruption with its Bribe Payers Index (BPI) 2008 (pdf-file, 24 pages, 244 KB). It ranks 22 of the world’s most economically influential countries in it according to the likelihood of their firms to bribe abroad.
Companies from Beglium and Canada are least likely to bribe when [...]
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International Business Web-Portal: globalEDGEâ„¢
Hartmut Buettner @ December 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet
globalEDGEâ„¢[1] is a knowledge web-portal for international business professionals from around the world. According to their information the site offers:
Global Resources: more than 5,000 online resources, e.g. Database of International Business Statistics (DIBS), Market Potential Index (MPI) and glossary
Countries: executive memos, statistics, historical, economic, and political conditions on 199 countries around the world
US States: [...]
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Doing Business – Measuring business regulations
Hartmut Buettner @ December 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Doing Business project of the World Bank Group has been tracking regulatory reforms aimed at improving the ease of doing business and their enforcement across 181 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level by measuring their impact on 10 indicator sets[1] since 2004. Almost 1,000 reforms have been captured until now.
Covering [...]
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Corruption Perception Index 2008 (CPI)
Hartmut Buettner @ November 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The global coalition against corruption Transparency International has issued its Corruption Perception Index 2008 in Berlin on 23 September.
The CPI measures the perceived degree of corruption in the public sector of a country. It is a composite index, which is based on different surveys and analyses. The CPI 2008 compares 180 countries (the same number [...]
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