political environment for doing business in various developed and developing countries,and their policies

1. POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT
FOR BUSINESS
BALAJI S
CEG,ANNA UNIVERSITY

2. BANGLADESH
 BANGLADESH is a parliamentary democracy with a free market economy.
 The overall strength of economic growth has contributed to a substantial decrease in
poverty over the past decade.
 Bangladesh’s highly competitive ready-made garment (RMG) sector accounts for over
80% of export earnings and around 12% of GDP.
 The World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business survey for 2016 shows Bangladesh’s standing
at 176 out of 189 countries compared to 130 in 2014.

3. NEPAL
 Democratic Republic.
 Growth slowed in FY2016 after devastating earthquakes late in the
previous fiscal year, a weak monsoon, and trade disruptions.
 Nepal's GDP is forecast to grow between 5.2% to 6.2% in FY2017.
 Multinational such as coke, Carlsberg Beer as well as more than 30 local
factories in southern and central Nepal had closed their factories after
strong union pressure to increase facilities and working conditions.

4.  The COUNTRY OPERATIONS and BUSINESS PLAN(2017-19) will support
the following:
 Better road and air transport connectivity.
 Sustainable urban development and assessment of economic corridors to
improve linkages with large, fast-growing neighbouring countries.
 Energy sector reforms and investments in generation, transmission, and
distribution systems.
 Upgrading skills and education.
 Water resources development and management, and transformation from
subsistence to commercial agriculture.

5.  SRI LANKA is a democratic republic and a unitary state which is governed
by a semi-presidential system, with a mixture of a presidential system and
a parliamentary system.
 Sri Lanka's ailing economy grew at a slower-than-expected 4.8% last
 Sri Lanka ranks 81st out of 185 countries in the World Bank's Doing
Business.

6.  The business start-up process has been streamlined, and the number of
licensing requirements has been reduced.
 The main economic sectors of the country are tourism, tea
export, apparel, textile, rice production and other agricultural products.
 Sri Lanka was ranked 107th out of 189 countries in the World Bank's
2016 Doing Business report.

7.  PAKISTAN is a democratic parliamentary federal republic.
 PAKISTAN lags behind its neighbours in economic development and exports due to
interest rates and energy crisis.
 Terrorism is yet another reason causing huge losses to the industrialised and trading
sectors.
 The rising political obstacles in the country are having a negative impact on the
and stock business.

8.  Practices such as red tapism and the long awaited departmental
procedures are big barriers in doing business.
 Cost of doing business has been increased further by poor infrastructure.
 Recently, PM Nawaz Sharif also announced an investment of Rs. 180 billion
to boost exports of the country. He planned to deduct taxes on several
industries including the textile industry.
 128th in the World Bank’s ease of doing business.

9.  CHINA is an emerging economy that offers lot of market opportunities for
foreign investment.
 The government fosters a dual economic structure, centrally planned economy
to a socialist market economic system, or a “market economy with socialist
characteristics.
 Foreign investors seek business in China mainly because of 3 things. They are:
 Size of the market
 The very low cost of labor
 China’s growth potential together

10.  China's rapid wage growth is not the norm in many other developing
countries is an major set back.

11.  The UNITED STATES is a federal republic.
 The USA has the world's largest economy, ahead of China.
 Lower wage costs are one variable in a company's decision to manufacture
or source from outside the United States.
 Importing from China to the United States may require a company to
hold 100 days of inventory. That burden can be reduced if the goods are
made nearer to home.
 Mexico is increasingly attracting production destined for the United States.

12.  Department of Commerce to encourage businesses to bring production
back to the United States or expand their operations here.
 Silicon Valley has largely denounced the travel ban, which now threatens
to become ensnared in a protracted battle between the executive and
legislative branches, and increasing generalized uncertainty.

13. THANK U
BALAJI S
CEG,ANNA UNIVERSITY
CHENNAI