...ommons Attribution-NonCommercial- ShareAlike 3.0 Singapore License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-s... ....org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/sg/. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of APEC Memb... ...ance in preparing this report and the Economic Committee, particularly its Friends of the Chair on Ease of Doing Business, for valuable comments and ... ...’S EASE OF DOING BUSINESS ..................................................... 1 HISTORY .............................................................. ... Chapter 1: APEC’s Ease of Doing Business 1 1. APEC’S EASE OF DOING BUSINESS HISTORY APEC’s Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) initiative dates back... ...adult population listed in a public credit registry with information on repayment history, unpaid debts, or credit outstanding from the past five ye... ...ia; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Ireland; Italy; Latvia; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Netherlands; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Slovakia; Slov... ...e; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Iceland; Ireland; Israel; Italy; Japan; Korea, Rep.; Luxembourg; Netherlands; New Zealand; Norway; Poland; Portugal; Sl...

...APEC Leaders in 2009 endorsed an APEC-wide improvement of 25 percent by 2015 in five key areas of doing business: 1) Starting a Business; 2) Getting Credit; 3) Enforcing Contracts; 4) Trading Across Borders; and 5) Dealing with Permits, with an interim 5 percent improvement by 20...

... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ...l Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ................................................................................................................................. 17 Combinations of Nee... ... learn and how we perceive things that I don‘t want to confuse you. I could probably start at a hundred different points, but let‘s go back in histor... ...ed on modern neuroscience. But there is no question that his insights were critical to Western thinking. He was one of the great minds of our histor... ...rtainly there are things that need to be learned by rote—spelling, writing, the multiplication tables, and so forth. But video games can teach histor... ... up there. And Costa Rica was 13 th on a major survey. What does this tells us? ―For one thing, more money doesn‘t make us happier. Luxemb...

...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 C...