{"id":13472,"date":"2010-10-11T14:22:58","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T12:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=13472"},"modified":"2010-10-11T14:23:25","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T12:23:25","slug":"doing-business-in-cyprus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/11\/doing-business-in-cyprus\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing business in Cyprus"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doingbusiness.org\/economyrankings\/\">The Doing Business project<\/a> provides a rating across 183 countries on how easy it is to do business in each one of them. \u00a0Cyprus occupies a respectable position #40 in that list. \u00a0Here are the metrics used in ranking calculations, as well as some of the neighbors for Cyprus:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Easy of Doing Business Rank: 40<\/strong> (after Columbia, Azerbaijan, Qatar and before Kyrgyz Republic, Slovac Republic, Armenia)<\/li>\n<li>Starting a Business: 25<\/li>\n<li>Dealing with Construction Permits: 77<\/li>\n<li>Employing Workers: 93<\/li>\n<li>Registering Property: 64<\/li>\n<li>Getting Credit: 71<\/li>\n<li>Protecting Investors: 93<\/li>\n<li>Paying Taxes: 37<\/li>\n<li>Trading Across Borders: 15<\/li>\n<li>Enforcing Contracts: 107<\/li>\n<li>Closing a Business: 21<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>And while there are obviously plenty of pros and cons to each country in the list, it&#8217;s nice to see a summarizing effort.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>The Doing Business project provides a rating across 183 countries on how easy it is to do business in each one of them. \u00a0Cyprus occupies a respectable position #40 in that list. \u00a0Here are the metrics used in ranking calculations, as well as some of the neighbors for Cyprus: Easy of Doing Business Rank: 40 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/11\/doing-business-in-cyprus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Doing business in Cyprus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,22],"tags":[1968,1041,334],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-13472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-cyprus","tag-business","tag-statistics","tag-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9513,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/10\/01\/independence-of-the-republic-of-cyprus\/","url_meta":{"origin":13472,"position":0},"title":"Independence of the Republic of Cyprus","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"October 1, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Today is the 45th anniversary of Cyprus independence. 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