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Author Waller, Lloyd G

Title Doing Business in Jamaica
Published Kingston : Ian Randle Publishers, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (148 pages)
Contents Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Foreign Direct Investment and Development -- Evidence from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean -- 2. Foreign Direct Investment and Jamaica -- 3. The Doing Business Report (DBR) -- 4. Doing Business in Jamaica -- Figure 4.1: Trading Economics Doing Business Rank of Jamaica from 2008-16 -- Table 4.1: Jamaica's DBI Ranking for 2016, 2017, and 2018
Table 4.2: Jamaica's 2018 DBI Indicators (by Variables) Comparative to the Latin American and Caribbean and OECD High-income Countries -- 5. Investors' Favourability in Doing Business in Jamaica -- Figure 5.1: Countries/Regions Where Local Businesses Operate Otherwise or Where Local Business Owners Own or Operate Other Businesses -- Figure 5.2: Characteristics of Jamaican Employees -- Figure 5.3: Participants' Experiences with Employing Workers in Jamaica -- 6. Doing Business in Jamaica: The Starting a Business Environment -- Figure 6.1: DBR's Ranking of Jamaica Regarding Starting a Business
Figure 6.2: Experiences in Starting a Business in Jamaica -- Figure 6.3: Dealing with Construction Permits -- DBR Rank of Jamaica -- Table 6.1: Details -- Dealing with Construction Permits in Jamaica -- Procedure, Time, and Cost -- Table 6.2: Details -- Registering Property in Jamaica -- Procedure, Time, and Cost -- Figure 6.4: Acquiring Electricity -- DBR Rank of Jamaica -- Figure 6.5: Experience with Acquiring Electricity -- Figure 6.6: Acquiring Electricity -- DBR Rank of Jamaica -- Figure 6.7: Participants' Experiences with Registering or Transferring Property
7. Doing Business in Jamaica: Taxation, Regulation, and Trading Issues -- Figure 7.1: Paying Taxes -- DBR Rank of Jamaica -- Figure 7.2: Participants' Experiences Paying Taxes in Jamaica -- Figure 7.3: Enforcing Contract and Resolving Business-related Issues -- DBR Rank of Jamaica -- Figure 7.4: Participants' Experiences with Enforcing Contracts -- Figure 7.5: Participants' Experiences with Resolving Business-related Disputes -- Figure 7.6: Resolving Insolvency -- DBR Rank of Jamaica -- Figure 7.7: Participants' Experiences with Insolvency
Figure 7.8: Trading Across Borders -- DBR Rank of Jamaica -- Figure 7.9: Participants' Experiences with Trading Overseas -- Conclusion -- Figure 8.1: Participants' Experiences with Trade Unions -- Figure 8.2: Participants' Access to Raw Material -- Figure 8.3: Participants' Perception of Corruption -- References
Notes Print version record
Subject Investments, Foreign -- Jamaica
New business enterprises -- Jamaica
Taxation -- Jamaica
Economic history
Investments, Foreign
New business enterprises
Taxation
SUBJECT Jamaica -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
Subject Jamaica
Form Electronic book
Author Williams, Densil A
Hawthorne, Omar E
Johnson
ISBN 9789766379834
9766379831