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Do business in Kyrgyzstan!

In the World Bank and IFC Doing Business Report 2014, Kyrgyzstan is on the 68th place out of 189 in the rankings on the ease of doing business. For comparison, Kyrgyzstan went up on two positions and was on the 70th place last year.  Kyrgyzstan's good practice is that it is making it easy to obtain an electricity connection.

On the first lines of ranking are Singapore, Hong Kong SAR, China, New Zealand, United States, Denmark. Last one in the ranking is Chad.

Central Asia is continuing its steady pace of regulatory reform. However, Central Asian countries are spread across the ranking. That is, Kazakhstan is on the 50th place, Tajikistan on 143rd and Uzbekistan is on 146th. Russia this year is on 92nd place, went up on twenty positions since last year.

This ranking Ease of doing business is based on various criteria and indicators. Among them are: starting a business, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders and other.


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