Like every year, in the report “Doing Business” the World Bank ranks the most competitive countries based on the ease with which companies can operate. And this time theItaly it loses five positions compared to the previous edition, placing itself in 50st place. In the ranking, Italy is overtaken by nations such as Moldova (which rises from fifty-second to forty-fourth position) and Serbia (which was fifty-ninth last year and is now forty-seventh). Of course, all international rankings should always be taken with a grain of salt, but that of "Doing Business" is not encouraging and demonstrates how far we still have to go to put ourselves at the level of the most advanced countries.
Our country is therefore third last among the members of the EU in terms of its ability to attract investments: only the worst Greece (sixty-first) e Malta (seventy-sixth). The study focuses in particular on the reforms adopted by governments to make their economies more business-friendly, based on indicators such as bureaucracy times, access to credit and energy, the tax system and the protection of property, from access to credit and energy to the time of bureaucracy.
The ranking is led by New Zealand, which this year undermines Singapore. There Denmark is third followed by Hong Kong, South Korea, Norway, United Kingdom, USA and Sweden. In tenth place the surprise stands out Macedonia, which displaced Finland from the top ten. And in general it is all of Eastern Europe, thanks to the vigorous reform action implemented by the governments of the area, that amazes and wins points from G7 economies such as Canada, which fell from fourteenth to twenty-second position.
Among the large economies of the Eurozone, the Germany , France they lose two positions each and fall respectively to seventeenth and twenty-ninth place, while la Spain climbs one step to thirty-second place. Instead, it is stable in thirty-fourth place Japan, surpassed in dynamism by Taiwan (eleventh) e Malaysia (twenty-third).
The report, underlines the World Bank, "demonstrates that the best performances are, on average, associated with lower levels of social inequality and therefore with reduced poverty and greater shared prosperity". Simple and easy to follow rules "are a sign that the government treats its citizens with respect, generating direct economic benefits: more business, more opportunities for women, more adherence to the rule of law", comments the chief economist of the World Bank, Paul Romer, warning that "an executive that fails to treat its citizens in this way loses its ability to govern".
