Can you do business today?

This text is a forum published by El Mundo de Venezuela and can be read in pdf here

The answer seems obvious. Yes, now clear that business can be done, but if you look a bit more about the issue, we will not. Not so simple a manner as should be able to do. At the time when unemployment data reaching historic proportions, and is the main concern of millions of families around the world, promoting business opportunities and entrepreneurial attitude should be the foundation on which to build recovery economic for it to be stable and sustainable.

The Doing Business Index, under the World Bank years measured in detail the degree of ease of doing business in 183 countries. In this report the data from Spain, my country, are hardly flattering, neither for the development of the country or for his current position with respect to neighboring countries. And it happens like in many Latin American countries. Globally, Spain is ranked at number 62 in ease of doing business in 2010, having lost 11 positions on the previous edition (which already had a classification rather than discrete), far from the position that corresponds, our country being a major world economies.

This means that World Bank analysts is preferable, in 2010, and mprender a business in developed countries like USA, UK, or Japan. So far nothing noteworthy, but also other countries like Korea, South Africa, Cyprus, Tonga and Mongolia are ahead in the classification of the facility to engage and do business. This index measures the ease of comparison to begin to undertake to employ, even the ease in dealing with administrative procedures, registering property, getting credit, paying taxes or index of protection and enforcement of contracts.

One of the main brakes on economic activity are often heavy bureaucratic entrepreneurs who have to implement any initiative. In a scenario in which the administration has been trying to encourage innovative projects that arise and encourage the emergence of entrepreneurs who create jobs, it is absurd that after this public effort in fostering an entrepreneurial figure fall on deaf ears to the enormous red tape limit the economic and business activity and that the Pastrana many sectors, not only in generating domestic demand but also competition for the installation of foreign companies, who are increasingly choosing other emerging markets, such as Ireland, Romania and Poland .

It is not acceptable, for example in Spain, the procedures for starting a business will lead to an average of 10 administrative procedures and 47 days on average, while in the countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD the average is 5 processes and 13 days. We in the days of "you again tomorrow."

It is time to demand that expedite and facilitate all these processes, the Government and the regions have an unresolved issue, although every year announce measures to simplify administrative procedures to start a business, we are still light years away from more advanced countries, in fact, we are in the caboose behind almost all countries of our environment.

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