Economy Profile of Iceland

• Main Author: World Bank Group
• Format: Book
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Iceland
• Online Access: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/30715/131692-WP-DB2019-PUBLIC-Iceland.pdf?sequence=1

Sixteenth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2019 covers 11 areas of business regulation. Ten of these areas - starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency - are included in the ease of doing business score and ease of doing business ranking. Doing Business also measures features of labor market regulation, which is not included in these two measures. Doing Business provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 190 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level. This economy profile presents indicators for Iceland; for 2019 Iceland ranks 21. Public Sector Development - Regulatory Regimes Macroeconomics and Economic Growth - Taxation & Subsidies Private Sector Development - Enterprise Development & Reform Private Sector Development - Legal Regulation and Business Environment Social Protections and Labor - Labor Policies