Trade is indispensable to fostering greater levels of global economic development. As the OECD has written, “No country has lifted itself out of poverty without international trade.” This category consolidates GTIPA-member reports assessing the intersection of trade and economic development.
This Morocco case study is one of a number of in-depth reports which analyse an individual country’s performance on the key characteristics of openness to trade, investment, ideas, competition, and talent.
When they consider how to root out corruption in government South Africans are fond of throwing around buzzwords such as "mechanisms", "transparency", and "accountability". These standards found in section 1 of the Constitution are fundamental to a healthy democracy, but they are thematic and need to give rise to real, substantial interventions - this rarely happens. Civil society must go beyond the buzzwords and enter the trenches of detail. Only then will it be discovered that the root cause of corruption in South Africa is found in two facts: There is overregulation of the economy, and Parliament bestows too much discretionary power on executive officials. Both of these phenomena incentivize corruption.
This letter briefly elaborates four areas we believe the Roadmap should focus on in order to retain Europe’s competitiveness and ensure health-related innovation meets the future needs of Europe’s population.
This Report has been prepared for the European Commission, DG TAXUD, for the project TAXUD/2019/AO-14, “Study and Reports on the VAT Gap in the EU-28 Member States”, and is a follow-up to the seven reports published between 2013 and 2019.
Germany as a business location relies on international qualified professionals in the long term. Since March 2020, the Skilled Immigration Act has also made it possible for professionally qualified people from third countries to immigrate to Germany for the purpose of work. A requirement for this is that the foreign vocational qualification has been recognized in Germany.
South Africa ranks 90th out of 162 countries and territories included in the Economic Freedom of the World: 2020 Annual Report, released today by the Free Market Foundation in conjunction with Canada’s Fraser Institute.
For the European Union, China is both an important trading partner and, with its very different political system and industrial policy, a new competitor. From a European perspective, the main cause for concern is how China’s state capitalism has created distortions in the economic competition which are increasingly affecting world markets.
Honduras ranks 63 out of 162 countries and territories included in the Annual Report on Economic Freedom of the World: 2020, published today by the Eléutera Foundation in conjunction with the Fraser Institute of Canada.
Chile falls behind in the last Economic Freedom Index by Fraser Institute, despite improving its score. Ranked 14th out of 162 economies, the country remains at the forefront in Latin America.
In 2018 there were 3,103 Swedish controlled enterprise groups with affiliates abroad, a decrease of 96 groups since 2017. Of these enterprise groups 1,116 or 36 percent had subsidiaries in Norway. Between 17 and 21 percent of the enterprise groups had subsidiaries established in Finland, Denmark, and the USA.