Doing Business 2007 : Data on Algeria

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September 2006 - The region ranks fourth in the world on the pace of reform,  up two places from last year. “More progress is sorely needed. Middle Eastern and North African countries would greatly benefit from new enterprises and jobs, which can come with more business-friendly regulations ” said Michael Klein, World Bank-IFC vice president for financial and private sector development and IFC chief economist.

Algeria instructed banks and financial institutions to report unpaid credits and loans to the public credit registry, increasing available information about potential borrowers. It also reduced the corporate income tax rate from 30 percent to 25 percent.

Main Doing Business 2007 rankings
Doing Business 2007: How to Reform, covering 175 economies, finds that the top 10 global reformers are, in order, Georgia, Romania, Mexico, China, Peru, France, Croatia, Guatemala, Ghana, and Tanzania. Reformers simplified business regulations, strengthened property rights, eased tax burdens, increased access to credit, and reduced the cost of exporting and importing.
Doing Business 2007 also ranks 175 economies on the ease of doing business. The top 30 economies in the world, in order, are Singapore, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, Hong-Kong (China), the United Kingdom, Denmark, Australia, Norway, Ireland, Japan, Iceland, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Lithuania, Estonia, Thailand, Puerto Rico, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Korea, Latvia, Malaysia, Israel, St. Lucia, Chile, South Africa, and Austria.