This economy profile presents the Doing Business indicators for St. Kitts & Nevis. In a series of annual reports, Doing Business assesses regulations affecting domestic firms in 189 economies and ranks the economies in 10 areas of business regulation, such as starting a business, resolving insolvency and trading across borders.
... See More + This year's report data cover regulations measured from June 2012 through May 2013. The report is the 11th edition of the Doing Business series.
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The 14 indicators describe a country's macro-fiscal environment to identify constraints or opportunities for health systems financing.
... See More + For each indicator two aspects are important: level and trend. A country with a 10 percent unemployment rate that has fallen from 15 percent may be in better shape than one with an 8 percent unemployment rate that has risen from 4 percent. It is also important to benchmark to group averages of countries in the same Word Bank (WB) region (EAS, ECS, LCN, MEA, NAC, SAS, or SSF) and income group (HIC, upper MIC, lower MIC, or LIC).
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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.
... See More + 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 St. Kitts and Nevis. 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).
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The Education Management Information System (EMIS) in St. Kitts and Nevis is part of the Education Planning Division of the Ministry of Education.
... See More + It functions in collaboration with the Chief Education Officer and other education officers. Four key objectives of St. Kitts EMIS have been established: collect and analyze educational data; inform policymakers; provide feedback to stakeholders; and monitor and support schools. This report includes the following headings: facilities and equipment, EMIS staff, EMIS data, data collection, data processing, and publications.
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Working Paper 67663 FEB 01, 2012
Arcia, Gustavo; Porta, Emilio; Nannyonjo, Harriet; Klein, Jennifer
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.
... See More + 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 St. Kitts and Nevis. 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).
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Doing business 2011: making a difference for entrepreneurs is the eighth in a series of annual reports investigating regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it.
... See More + 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. A set of regulations affecting 9 stages of a business's life are measured: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and closing a business. Data in Doing business 2011 are current as of June 1, 2010. The indicators are used to analyze economic outcomes and identify what reforms have worked, where, and why. The paper includes the following headings: overview, five-year measure of cumulative change, starting a business, dealing with construction permits, employing workers, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, and closing a business.
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This country level trade brief summarizes insights from the world trade indicators database as well as analyzes national impacts and responses to the food crisis and global recession.
... See More + The trade at a glance tables for St. Kitts and Nevis provides a snapshot of key aspects of trade policy and performance.
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This country level trade brief summarizes insights from the world trade indicators database as well as analyzes national impacts and responses to the food crisis and global recession.
... See More + The trade at a glance tables for St. Kitts and Nevis provides a snapshot of key aspects of trade policy and performance.
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The OECS Education Development Project for Saint Kitts and Nevis had a moderately satisfactory outcome and a substantial risk to development outcome.
... See More + The Bank performance was moderately satisfactory and the borrower's performance was satisfactory. The main lessons learned were: (1) Results framework with a clear link between outputs and outcomes. The link between Project's activities and the outcome indicators was not clearly addressed in the project document. As a result, these indicators could not adequately measure the project achievements. To maintain the focus on Project Development Objectives (PDO) during the implementation and to clearly address how different activities and components fit together, creating a well-defined results framework is critical. (2) Consistent monitoring of indicators throughout the project. During the project implementation, not all the PDO indicators were included in the Implementation Status and Results Report and the data was not updated regularly. In addition, the data criteria seemed to be inconsistent. This has made the project assessment difficult. (3) Realistic cost estimate and scope of work. The Project experienced significant cost overrun. This led to the reduction of scope of the activities, which caused additional delays. The activities should not be included unless their funding is assured. The project teams should ensure that funding is assured for all the planned activities based on a realistic cost estimate. (4) Infrastructure maintenance scheme put upfront. (5) Continuity from preparation to implementation. The Project Advisory Committee was set up to guide the whole process of the Project, from preparation to implementation. (6) Communication within the Bank. There were some cases that the Bank's advice to the Government varied depending on the individual officers. The mixed messages from the Bank caused some confusion and frustration in the project team and affected implementation. It is important that the Bank's advice to the client is consistent regardless of the personnel who process a client's request. (7) Balance between sub-regional approach and targeted approach. When setting up regional institutions or initiatives, clear arrangements for staffing and sustainability should be agreed upfront.
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Implementation Completion and Results Report ICR1256 DEC 29, 2009
Ratings for the HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Project for St. Kitts and Nevis were as follows: outcomes were moderately satisfactory, the risk to development outcome was moderate, Bank performance was moderately unsatisfactory, and Borrower performance was moderately satisfactory.
... See More + Some lessons learned included: project design should match the country context and the capacity available in-country. Using a template model that may have worked in other countries creates implementation delays and unrealistic expectations. This applies especially to commitment by all stakeholders, especially Civil Society Organization (CSOs) and to establishing the appropriate institutional framework for program implementation. The project design could have had more of a capacity building and systems development emphasis. Technical and fiduciary teams struggle to cope with responsibilities at inception in a country that is a first time borrower and where collaboration between more than one ministry is key to successful implementation. The capacity to implement monitoring and evaluation (M&E) must be identified and addressed at the design stage and a budget assigned to it. This is especially important when no baseline data are available and need to be collected within the first year of the project. If that is not possible then proxy data should be used so that performance and outcomes can be measured and monitored. The ability to retain technical and fiduciary staff after project closure is a necessary condition to guarantee operational sustainability. In the case of St. Kitts and Nevis, the skills and experience of trained staff were retained by absorbing the staff in the Government establishment and therefore staff will be available to continue controlling the spread of the HIV and mitigate its impact.
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Implementation Completion and Results Report ICR1276 DEC 22, 2009
Doing Business 2010 is the seventh in a series of annual reports investigating regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it.
... See More + 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 paper presents the summary Doing Business indicators for St. Kitts and Nevis. The paper includes the following headings: introduction and aggregate rankings, starting a business, dealing with construction permits, employing workers, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, closing a business, and Doing Business 2010 reform.
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This country level trade brief summarizes insights from the world trade indicators database as well as analyzes national impacts and responses to the food crisis and global recession.
... See More + The trade at a glance tables for St. Kitts and Nevis provide a snapshot of key aspects of trade policy and performance.
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This country level trade brief summarizes insights from the world trade indicators database as well as analyzes national impacts and responses to the food crisis and global recession.
... See More + The trade at a glance tables for St. Kitts and Nevis provide a snapshot of key aspects of trade policy and performance.
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The Status of Projects in Execution (SOPE) report for FY08 provides information on all International Bank and Rural Development (IBRD)/International Development Association (IDA) projects that were active on June 30, 2008.
... See More + The report is intended to bridge the gap in information available to the public between the project appraisal document, disclosed after the Bank approves a project, and the implementation completion report, disclosed after the project closes. In addition to the project progress description, the FY08 SOPE report contains project level comparisons of disbursement estimates and actual disbursements, and a table showing the loan/credit/grant amount and disbursements to date for all active projects.
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Doing Business 2009 is the sixth in a series of annual reports investigating regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it.
... See More + Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 181 economies, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, over time. This paper presents the summary Doing Business indicators for St. Kitts and Nevis. The paper includes the following headings: introduction, starting a business, dealing with licenses, employing workers, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, and closing a business.
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The Status of Projects in Execution (SOPE) report for FY07 provides information on all International Bank and Rural Development (IBRD)/International Development Association (IDA) projects that were active on June 30, 2007.
... See More + The report is intended to bridge the gap in information available to the public between the project appraisal document, disclosed after the Bank approves a project, and the implementation completion report, disclosed after the project closes. In addition to the project progress description, the FY07 SOPE report contains project level comparisons of disbursement estimates and actual disbursements, and a table showing the loan/credit/grant amount and disbursements to date for all active projects.
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This report presents the summary Doing Business indicators for Saint Kitts and Nevis along with the comparator economies selected. The data used for this country profile come from the Doing Business database and are summarized in graphs and tables.
... See More + This report allows a comparison of the economies not only with one another but also with the best practice economy for each indicator. The best-practice economies are identified by their position in each indicator as well as their overall ranking and by their capacity to provide good examples of business regulation to other economies. These best-practice economies do not necessarily rank number 1 in the topic or indicator, but they are in the top 5. Doing Business 2008 is the fifth in a series of annual reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 178 economies and over time.
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This loan restructuring for the St. Kitts and Nevis HIV/AIDS prevention and control project would: restate the development objective of the project and revise the monitoring and evaluation framework; ii) simplify the project design by realigning project components; iii) update costs of project activities; introduce changes to the institutional arrangements to clarify roles and responsibilities of the implementing agencies involved in project execution and strengthen capacity for project implementation; and, extend the project closing date by one year to allow adequate time for completion of project activities.
... See More + These changes will require amendments to the loan agreement.
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