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Doing business sheds light on how easy or difficult it is for a local entrepreneur to open and run a small to medium-size business when complying with relevant regulations. It measures and tracks changes in regulations affecting 10 areas in the life cycle of a business: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency. In a series of annual reports doing business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 183 economies, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, over time. This economy profile presents the doing business indicators for Caribbean States. To allow useful comparison, it also provides data for other selected economies (comparator economies) for each indicator. The data in this report are current as of June 1, 2011 (except for the paying taxes indicators, which cover the period January December 2010).

AbstractThe concept of 'globalisation' increasingly dominates economic and political debate in the 1990s. However, despite a profusion of commentaries and case studies on aspects of 'globalisation' such as 'Japanisation', 'Americanisation', 'McDonaldisation' and, of course, global information technologies, there are few radical interrogations of the notion of 'globalisation/internationalisation' and little discussion of the theoretical implications of recent changes in the global political economy (GPE). The central argument of this paper is that in order to make sense of these developments a broad focus is required which begins by conceptualising the changing nature of relations between national states in the global economy and concludes by understanding these relations in class terms. This is not simply to restate the importance of an international relations or international political economy 'dimension', since these 'disciplines' fail absolutely to relate 'interstate' restructuring to the re-composition of class relations. Rather, the aim of the paper is to prompt a more general theoretical reorientation towards understanding the process of international restructuring as one undertaken by national states in an attempt to re-impose tighter labour discipline and recompose the labour/capital relationship. My starting point, therefore, is that global capitalism is still structured as an antagonistic state system, and that many of the changes which characterise the global political economy are introduced by states in an attempt to solve problems that have their roots in labour/capital conflict. In summary form, the paper concludes that the concept of 'globalisation' obscures more than it reveals and that Marx's understanding of the relationship between labour, capital and the state remains a more productive starting point for analysing contemporary global processes.

This tenth edition of Doing Business sheds light on how easy or difficult it is for a local entrepreneur to open and run a small to medium-size business when complying with relevant regulations. It measures and tracks changes in regulations affecting eleven areas in the life cycle of a business: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, resolving insolvency and employing workers. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 185 economies, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, over time. The indicators are used to analyze economic outcomes and identify what reforms have worked, where and why. This economy profile presents the Doing Business indicators for the United States. To allow useful comparison, it also provides data for other selected economies (comparator economies) for each indicator. The data in this report are current as of June 1, 2012 (except for the paying taxes indicators, which cover the period January - December 2011).

Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848) -- Africa -- Agribusiness exhibition -- Air hijackings -- Alarcón, de Quesada Ricardo (1937- ) -- Alliance for Progress -- Anti-imperialist movement -- Audiovisual materials -- Autonomists -- Bailey, Joseph W. (1862-1929) -- Baker, James A. III (1930- ) -- Balsero crisis -- Barquín, López Rafael (1914- ) -- Baseball -- Batista y, Zaldívar Fulgencio (1901-1973) -- Bay of Pigs invasion -- Beaulac, William (1899-1990) -- Beveridge, Albert J. (1862-1927) -- Black Warrior incident -- Blaine, James G. (1830-1893) -- Blanco y, Erenas Ramón (1831-1906) -- Bond schemes -- Bondholders dispute 1934-1940 -- Bonsal, Philip W. (1903-1995) -- Braden, Spruille (1894-1978) -- Brooke, John R. (1838-1926) -- Brothers to the rescue -- Bryan, William Jennings (1860-1925) -- Brzezinski, Zbigniew (1928- ) -- Buchanan, James (1791-1868) -- Bundy, McGeorge (1919-1996) -- Bush, George H.W. (1924- ) -- Bush, George W. (1946- ) -- Butler, Robert (1897-1955) -- Caffrey, Jefferson (1886-1974) -- Calhoun, William J. (1848-1916) -- Camarioca boat lift -- Canalejas, José (1854-1912) -- Caracas Pact -- Carter, Jimmy (1924- ) -- Castro Ruz, Fidel (1926- ) -- Castro Ruz, Raúl (1931- ) -- Central American confiict -- Céspedes, Carlos Manuel de (1871-1939) -- Chibás, Eduardo (1907-1951) -- Chronology -- Clark memorandum -- Clay, Henry (1777-1852) -- Cleveland, Grover S. (1837-1908) -- Clinton, Bill (1946- ) -- Coolidge, Calvin (1872-1933) -- Coup d'état 1952.

"International politics often requires two or more languages, and the resulting interlingual relations mean translation, either by interpreters who are quite literally in the middle of conversations, or by bilingual statesmen who negotiate internationally in one language and then legitimize domestically in another. Since no two languages are the same, what can be argued in one language may be impossible in another. Political concepts can thus be significantly reformulated in the translation process. State of Translation examines this phenomenon using a case study of how 19th-century Ottoman and later Turkish statesmen struggled with reconciling their arguments in external languages (French, then English) with those in their internal language (Ottoman, later Turkish), and in the process further entangled them. Einar Wigen shows how this process structured social relations between the Ottoman state and its interlocutors, both domestically and internationally, and shaped the dynamics of Turkish relations with Europe"...

Address before the Popular socialist party of Cuba, Havana, Jan. 28, 1946.

'Encyclopedia of United States Foreign Relations' edited by Bruce W. Jentleson and Thomas G. Paterson is reviewed.

Im "anarchischen" internationalen System scheint es für Staaten sehr schwierig zu sein, langfristig Zugeständnisse hinsichtlich militärischer Verpflichtungen oder anderem gegenüber anderen Staaten zu halten. Gerade vor dem Hintergrund einer wankelmütigen öffentlichen Meinung im Lande scheint es für demokratische Systeme besonders schwer internationale Verpflichtungen über längere Zeit aufrecht zu erhalten. Dennoch gibt es gerade in Demokratien wichtige Teilbereiche im Wertgefüge und den Institutionen, die es den Regierenden ermöglicht hier standhaft zu bleiben. Dies zeigt nicht zuletzt die Dauer von Bündnissen zwischen Demokratien im Vergleich zu denen nichtdemokratischer Staaten. (SWP-Krh)