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Doing Business in 2006 -- Creating Jobs - Caribbean Elections
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Enforcing Contracts<br />
JANUARY 2005<br />
DOING BUSINESS INDICATORS 109<br />
Closing a Business<br />
JANUARY 2005<br />
Recovery<br />
rate<br />
Procedures Time Cost Time Cost (cents on<br />
Economy (number) (days) (% of debt) (years) (% of estate) the dollar)<br />
Palau 34 465 34.7 6.5 38.0 3.5<br />
Panama 45 355 37.0 2.0 29.5 25.8<br />
Papua New Guinea 22 440 110.3 2.8 38.0 13.0<br />
Paraguay 46 285 30.4 3.9 9.0 13.3<br />
Peru 35 381 34.7 3.1 7.0 31.3<br />
Philippines 25 360 50.7 5.7 38.0 4.1<br />
Poland 41 980 8.7 1.4 22.0 64.0<br />
Portugal 24 320 17.5 2.0 9.0 74.7<br />
Puerto Rico 43 270 21.0 3.8 8.0 61.4<br />
Romania 43 335 12.4 4.6 9.0 17.5<br />
Russia 29 330 20.3 3.8 9.0 27.6<br />
Rwanda 27 310 43.2 NO PRACTICE NO PRACTICE 0.0<br />
Samoa 21 505 25.0 2.5 38.0 15.2<br />
São Tomé and Príncipe 67 240 69.5 0.3 29.5 0.0<br />
Saudi Arabia 44 360 20.0 2.8 22.0 28.4<br />
Senegal 33 485 23.8 3.0 7.0 19.0<br />
Serbia and Montenegro 33 635 18.1 2.7 23.0 20.3<br />
Sierra Leone 58 305 31.0 2.6 42.0 9.0<br />
Singapore 23 69 9.0 0.8 1.0 91.3<br />
Slovakia 27 565 15.0 4.8 18.0 38.6<br />
Slovenia 25 913 15.2 3.6 14.5 27.9<br />
Solomon Islands 30 455 140.8 3.9 38.0 7.1<br />
South Africa 26 277 11.5 2.0 18.0 33.9<br />
Spain 23 169 14.1 1.0 14.5 77.8<br />
Sri Lanka 17 440 21.3 2.2 18.0 33.8<br />
Sudan 67.0 915.0 30.0 NO PRACTICE NO PRACTICE 0.0<br />
Sweden 23 208 5.9 2.0 9.0 74.9<br />
Switzerland 22 170 5.2 3.0 3.5 46.9<br />
Syria 47 672 34.3 4.1 9.0 28.5<br />
Taiwan, China 28 210 7.7 0.8 3.5 89.4<br />
Tanzania 21 242 35.3 3.0 22.0 22.3<br />
Thailand 26 390 13.4 2.7 36.0 43.9<br />
Timor-Leste 69 990 183.1 NO PRACTICE NO PRACTICE 0.0<br />
Togo 37 535 24.3 3.0 14.5 15.9<br />
Tonga 30 510 47.0 2.7 22.0 25.0<br />
Tunisia 14 27 12.0 1.3 7.0 51.5<br />
Turkey 22 330 12.5 5.9 7.0 7.2<br />
Uganda 15 209 22.3 2.2 29.5 39.8<br />
Ukraine 28 269 11.0 2.9 42.0 8.4<br />
United Arab Emirates 53 614 16.0 5.1 30.0 5.5<br />
United Kingdom 14 288 17.2 1.0 6.0 85.3<br />
United States 17 250 7.5 2.0 7.0 76.2<br />
Uruguay 39 620 25.8 2.1 7.0 30.6<br />
Uzbekistan 35 368 18.1 4.0 4.0 12.5<br />
Vanuatu 24 430 64.0 2.6 38.0 15.8<br />
Venezuela 41 445 28.7 4.0 38.0 6.1<br />
Vietnam 37 343 30.1 5.0 14.5 19.2<br />
West Bank and Gaza 26 465 21.4 . . . . . .<br />
Yemen 37 360 10.5 3.0 8.0 28.2<br />
Zambia 16 274 28.7 3.1 9.0 20.0<br />
Zimbabwe 33 350 19.1 2.2 22.0 2.1
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