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Doing Business 2016: Measuring Regulatory Quality and Efficiency
Economy Profile 2016: United Kingdom by
Doing Business sheds light on how easy or difficult it is for a local entrepreneur to open and run a small to medium-size business when complying with relevant regulations. It measures and tracks changes in regulations affecting 11 areas in the life cycle of a business: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, resolving insolvency and labor market regulation.
This economy profile presents the Doing Business indicators for United Kingdom. To allow useful comparison, it also provides data for other selected economies (comparator economies) for each indicator. The data in this report are current as of June 1, 2015 (except for the paying taxes indicators, which cover the period January–December 2014
Agribusiness eyes Mexico as court debate lifting GM maize ban
January 14, 2016
“Native maize . . . really has to do with the identity of Mexico,†says Ms Willcox. “The culture of Mexicans was based on the growth of maize . . . that has developed both religious and culinary traditions around [the crop], so it’s almost unthinkable to have a Mexico without the diversity of maize.â€
The latest Ford plant will build on a rush of investments in Mexico as global automakers take advantage of the nation’s lower labor costs, network of trade agreements and proximity to the U.S., its biggest export market.
More than 70,000 guns recovered from crime scenes in Mexico between 2009 and 2014 could be traced back to the United States, according to a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office. That represents 70 percent of all crime guns recovered and traced in Mexico during that period.
In 2003, average hourly earnings in China’s manufacturing sector were just $0.69, barely a third of the $1.95 an hour earned by Mexican workers, according to calculations by Bank of America Merrill Lynch. This year the Chinese figure will hit $3.70 an hour, two-thirds above the $2.20 in Mexico’s manufacturing sector.
In an unintended plot twist, El Chapo’s contacts with Mr Penn and Kate del Castillo, a Mexican actress, helped the Mexican authorities get a fix on his position. Eventually, they closed in on him in a safe house in Los Mochis, a coastal town.
The other refugee crisis: women on the run for Central America
January 16, 2016
As the world’s attention has focused on the refugee crisis in Europe and the Middle East, another crisis has been unfolding, to far less attention, in the heart of the Americas. The violence in Central America’s “northern triangle†of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, and parts of Mexico, has reached war zone levels.
Mexico Bank Chief calls for EM monetary policy action
January 17, 2015
Central banks in emerging markets could follow counterparts in the developed world and become “market makers of last resortâ€, using unconventional monetary policies to try and stimulate their flatlining economies, according to Mexico’s central bank chief.
10 reasons why you should visit Tulum in Mexico in 2016
January 8, 2016
Nestled in Mexico’s Caribbean coast, with ivory beaches on one side and luscious jungle on the other, Tulum is the ultimate explorer’s paradise. Whether you’re up for a swim in an underground river or a plate of ceviche in a luxury boutique hotel, this well-kept secret is the place to be in 2016.
