The Institute of Economic and Social Studies (INESS) first introduced its Bureaucracy Index in Slovakia in 2016 to draw the attention to the amount of red tape a small entrepreneur has to overcome on a daily basis just to do business.
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The Smith Fellowship, one of the hallmark programs of Atlas Network’s Leadership Academy, brings up-and-coming leaders from around the world to Washington, D.C., where they receive varied training in marketing, fundraising, management, and other relevant skills needed for getting nascent think tanks off the ground. A recent alum...
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Andriy Shpakov is the executive director of EasyBusiness, a Ukrainian think tank, whose mission is to create a better environment for business operation and economic growth. Shpakov has a background in finance and business analysis, and during the last three years he has advised the Ukrainian government on how to develop a dereg...
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Thinking big is important for the cause of economic freedom, and achieving real wins is what thinking big is all about. Argentina wasn’t the only place our partners thought big and won. Here are nine more countries where Atlas Network invested successfully in recent victories for economic freedom by our independent, local partne...
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The World Bank’s Doing Business report ranks economies on their ease of doing business, from 1–190, “...by sorting the aggregate distance to frontier scores on 10 topics, each consisting of several indicators, giving equal weight to each topic.” In 2016, Ukraine landed in 80th position, with further improvement expected, for eas...
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Corruption has taken a heavy toll on Ukraine’s economy for years, but recent reforms passed by the Ukrainian government will improve the business climate in the coming years, reports Kyiv-based Atlas Network partner EasyBusiness. Ukraine has passed, or is in the process of passing, new laws that overhaul the judicial system, int...
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