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Canada Ranks 17th in ‘Ease of Doing Business’, Shines in ‘Starting a Business’ Category

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Canada ranks as the 17th easiest place in the world to do business in a report released on Tuesday by the World Bank. The 2013 edition of the Doing Business report rates 185 countries according to 11 sets of indicators that quantify the ease of complying with regulations and the protection of property ownership rights. Canada’s overall ranking was weighed […]

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Canada Ranks 5th in World Ranking of Economic Freedom, US Falls to 18th

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Canada tied Australia for fifth freest economy in the world in the Fraser Institute’s annual Economic Freedom of the World report, released yesterday. Canada improved its position by one spot while the US saw its ranking drop by ten spots from last year’s index. The Fraser Institute’s economic freedom index scores countries’ degree of economic freedom by five criteria: Size […]

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