بالأمس قرأت خبر حول حلول مصر فى المركز الأول فى الإصلاح الإقتصادى فى المنطقة و تليها المملكة العربية السعودية. هذا الإصلاح وفقاً للبنك الدولى يجعل مصر تفتح أبوابها بشكل أسهل للاستثمار و الأعمال. السؤال هو الإصلاح لمن بالضبط؟ إذا كانت مظاهر الإصلاح الإقتصادى تتضح من كم الماركات العالمية التى أصبحت متاحة فى مصر، فيمكننا أن نقول أنه عليه العوض على الموظفين و العمال و الفلاحين و الغلابة و إليكم تفاصيل الخبر
Egypt named top economic reformer
By: Olivia Spadavecchia
Published: 26 Sep 07 - 17:07
Egypt topped the list of reformers making it easier to do business worldwide, according to the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and World Bank-led survey Doing Business 2008.With regard to overall ease of doing business, the report ranked Mauritius first, and South Africa second, followed by Namibia, Botswana and Kenya. Mauritius is ranked number 27 worldwide, while South Africa is number 35.Last year South Africa was ranked above Mauritius worldwide at numbers 29 and 32 respectively. The findings of Doing Business 2008 indicated that South Africa was strong in terms of protecting investors, getting credit and dealing with licences.Its weaker indicators included cross-border trade, labour regulations and enforcing contracts.The Doing Business report measures a number of key indicators, such as the time and cost involved in starting a business, dealing with licences, employment issues, registration of property and enforcing contracts. Further indicators that are investigated include the ease or difficulty in getting credit, trading across borders, protecting investors, taxation and closing a business.The report is standardised to allow comparability between countries, and looks at a small to medium enterprise in the country's business capital. It does not take into consideration the quality of infrastructure, access to markets, macroeconomic factors, and crime and security.Egypt achieved reforms in five of the 10 areas studied by the report. These areas included; starting a business, dealing with licences, registering property, getting credit and trading across borders.The report showed that Egypt had reduced businesses' capital requirement from 50 000 Egyptian pounds to 1 000 Egyptian pounds, and fees for registering property were down from 3% of the property value to a low fixed fee.The establishment of new "one-stop shops" for traders at the ports cut the time to import by seven days and the time to export by five days. The country's first credit bureau was also established.World Bank (WB) lead private sector development specialist Bernard Drum noted that Ghana had tackled a number of bottlenecks affecting the business environment, specifically delays in property registration which had been reduced from a period of six months to one month.He added that the port authority had made it easier to import goods, six new commercial courts had been established, and mandatory arbitration and mediation for labour disputes was introduced.Drum commented that another reform had been the introduction of a new insolvency law which protected secured creditors.Kenya has launched an extensive licensing reform programme, which has to date eliminated 110 business licences and simplified eight others the IFC and WB explained in a statement.The organisations noted that the programme would eventually eliminate or simplify over 900 of the country's about 1 300 licences. Kenya also decreased the time taken for land valuation from one month to one week."Mauritius implemented a raft a reforms this year, they've instituted a single building and land-use permit and instituted time limits on the institution of those permits," explained Drum on the subject of the region's most business-friendly country.Mauritius has also engaged a three-year programme aimed at creating a single corporate tax with minimal tax holidays or credits. Other reforms included a reduced property registration fee, simplified construction permitting, computerisation of the company registry, and shortening business start-up to one week.Drum also pointed out Burkina Faso and Mozambique as a noteworthy reformers during the period.Despite all the reforms, Drum noted that Africa, as a whole, was still a difficult place in which to do business and that only about half of the continent's countries actually implemented reforms.
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