We stop ourselves from doing things.

The Importance of Doing Business

Just, you've got to stop doing what you're doing, so you can have this meeting.

Doing Business does not provide policy solutions.

I'm looking forward to doing business with you.

Doing so might even make good business sense.

Protest that works must disrupt business as usual and, ideally, stop traffic.

They need to know where I'm doing my business, because they want to know about my business.

And ugly face is this when you go face to face with a puppy or a child, you say, What are you doing! Now stop it, stop it, stop it!

Speculation abounds that the panel might recommend outsourcing Doing Business, removing its rankings of countries for the ease of doing business in them, or even eliminating the report altogether.

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For Gnaid and his family, the international community is doing nothing to stop the bloodshed.

Indeed, outsourcing or cutting Doing Business could damage the World Bank s standing.

So let's move away from thinking about business here and philanthropy there, and let's start thinking about doing good business.

They have degrees in political science, degrees in business they're entrepreneurs. They don't actually want to be doing what they're doing.

Human rights need not take a back seat to doing business with China.

Mongolia made a significant improvement on the ease of doing business in 2012, moving up to rank 76 compared with 88 last year in the Doing Business report by the International Finance Corporation (IFC).

Switzerland is a relatively easy place to do business, currently ranking 28th of 178 countries in the Ease of Doing Business Index.

The European Union should stop trying to do everything and concentrate on doing fewer things more effectively.

This means doing everything possible to stop infiltration of terrorists into Iraq and rethinking support for militias.

But at least the media are doing brisk business, and we are being entertained.

Doing Business is not intended to be a comprehensive review of each country s economy.

4 World Bank, Doing Business in 2005 Removing Obstacles to Growth (Washington, D.C., 2005).

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18 World Bank, Doing Business in 2005 Removing Obstacles to Growth (Washington, D.C., 2005).

One thing that we can do is to agitate for our own governments to stop doing those things that make it harder for poor countries to stop being poor.

Member States have introduced many innovative ways to stop them doing so, but the Team believes that more can and should be done to stop terrorists in their tracks.

All of a sudden you're telling them that they have to stop doing that to do something else.

Finally, while Doing Business focuses on helping the poorest countries to improve their economic performance, it also influences advanced country policymaking and business practices.

Much of the world began to turn away from the American way of doing business.

(This year, Doing Business ranked China 91st out of the 185 national economies it examined.)

That is why Doing Business adjusts its indicators every year based on feedback and review.

Specifically, export dependence partly reflects the high degree of difficulty of doing business in China.

Given that the project s methodological flaws can be addressed with targeted review and reform, doing away with Doing Business altogether would be extreme and unnecessary.

Doing Business has been a leader in synthesizing subjective and quantitative data to create understandable metrics.

China, like France in the past, objects to the perceived Anglo American bias of Doing Business.

Better Governance African governments often boast when they simply stop the corrosive effects of corruption and irrational business regulation.

Didn't they see what they were doing? How could societies not perceive their impacts on the environments and stop in time?

Then AIDS came along and hit Thailand, and we had to stop doing a lot of good things to fight AIDS.

Some argue that with this decision private companies will be less anxious when doing business with Iranian customers.

Farther East, Japan is trying a new economic experiment to stop deflation, boost economic growth, and restore business and consumer confidence.

Beyond the provision of cheap credit and concessional loans is the global export of China s way of doing business.

When schools stop doing that all the time, I will admit that, yes, it's obvious that trial and error is a good thing.

According to the World Bank, Brazil ranks 130th out of 185 countries in terms of the ease of doing business.

Companies and banks should be barred from doing business in or with settlements, especially with construction companies and their suppliers.