Business Environment: Room For Improvement Region-Wide

October 2007 | Market Strategy

Looking in detail at what the new business environment ratings tells us about the East Med region, the picture is not greatly changed. As with our previous ratings, Israel is well ahead of the crowd, while Syria languishes near the bottom, with only the West Bank and Gaza to cushion it from last place. Indeed, all of the countries covered leave something to be desired: while governments have been implementing macroeconomic reforms to varying degrees throughout the region, the feed-through of this pro-market stance has been slow to reach the business environment, with the socialist legacies of many of the

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