Doing Business 2018 is the 15th in a series of annual reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it.
... See More + This economy profile presents the Doing Business indicators for St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulation and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 190 economies; for 2018 St. Vincent and the Grenadines ranks 129. Doing Business measures aspects of regulation affecting 11 areas of the life of a business. Ten of these areas are included in this year's ranking on the ease of doing business: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, and resolving insolvency. Doing Business also measures features of labor market regulation, which is not included in this year's ranking. Data in Doing Business 2018 are current as of June 1, 2017. The indicators are used to analyze economic outcomes and identify what reforms of business regulation have worked, where, and why.
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The development objective of the Human Development Service Delivery Project for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines are to strengthen the quality of service delivery in education, to improve efficiency of social protection systems, and to improve effectiveness of labor market systems in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
... See More + The Project would be structured around four components. First component, Strengthening pedagogy for basic and special needs education aims to strengthen the capacity of teachers to deliver, and of school leaders to support, high-quality classroom instruction, with the ultimate goal of improved learning outcomes for primary and secondary school students in SVG. The Component will be delivered through two sub-components: (i) strengthening teaching capacity; and (ii) developing capacity of school leaders to support teachers in improving pedagogy and help build a pipeline of effective future school leaders; Second component, building responsive social protection service delivery systems will aim to: (i) improve Social Protection and Labor (SPL( service delivery instruments to support a household approach to providing safety net benefits; (ii) strengthen human resource capacity for provision of SPL programs and services; and (iii) enhance institutional mechanisms and strategy for more efficient, coordinated, and transparent service delivery, and improved communication and education strategies for safety net beneficiaries. The Project will also finance poverty data collection to ensure evidence-based decision making in identification of beneficiaries and program responses to address poverty challenges.The Project will provide support to three implementing agencies under this component. (i) support in completing an enhanced country poverty assessment (eCPA); and (ii) support in strengthening the SP system (MONM);Third component, strengthening labor market systems and improving skills training of poor and vulnerable populations will finance labor market data collection to inform training and labor market policy; direct delivery of TVET training to poor and unemployed persons; improvements in the learning environment for Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) education in selected schools; and technical assistance and investments to strengthen the overall institutional capacity and policy framework for a sustainable TVET and labor market system. There are two implementing agencies under this component. (i) support in strengthening the certification framework; (ii) support in strengthening of labor legislative framework; Fourth component, project implementation, monitoring and evaluation will finance activities related to the management of the Project to ensure its effective administration and implementation, and develop and put in place an effective monitoring system.
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This economy profile presents the Doing Business indicators for St. Vincent and the Grenadines. To allow useful comparison, it also provides data for other selected economies (comparator economies) for each indicator.
... See More + Doing Business 2017 is the 14th in a series of annual reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business; for 2016 St. Vincent and the Grenadines ranks 123. 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 11 areas in the life cycle of a business: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, resolving insolvency, and labor market regulation. Doing Business 2017 presents the data for the labor market regulation indicators in an annex. The report does not present rankings of economies on labor market regulation indicators or include the topic in the aggregate distance to frontier score or ranking on the ease of doing business. The indicators are used to analyze economic outcomes and identify what reforms have worked, where, and why. The data in this report are current as of June 1, 2016 (except for the paying taxes indicators, which cover the period January-December 2015).
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The objective of the Regional Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is to reduce disaster related vulnerabilities as well as other social vulnerabilities.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: alternative routes to be identified in the instance of extended road works or road blockages; the public to be notified of all disturbances to their normal routes; signposting, warning signs, barriers and traffic diversions must be clearly visible and the public warned of all potential hazards; provision must be made for the safe passages and crossings for all pedestrians where construction traffic interferes with their normal route; there must be active traffic management by trained and visible staff at the site or along roadways as required to ensure safe and convenient passage for the vehicular and pedestrian public; during operations, the engine covers of generators, air compressors and other powered mechanical equipment shall be closed, and equipment placed as far away from residential areas as possible; the records of waste disposal will be maintained as proof for proper management as designed; and whenever feasible the contractor will reuse and recycle appropriate and viable materials (except asbestos or other hazardous material).
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The objective of the Regional Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is to reduce disaster related vulnerabilities as well as other social vulnerabilities.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: compensation will be made for structures that are abandoned because of relocation, or resettlement of an individual or household, or structures that are damaged directly by construction activities; compensation for sacred sites (e.g., proprietary rites and reconstruction) is determined through negotiation with the appropriate parties; sacred sites include, but are not restricted to: altars, initiation centers, ritual sites, tombs and cemeteries; subsistence food for families (coconut, cashew, guava or mango) based on production yields. Cash payments to farmers will be aimed at replacing income derived from the sale of fruit production yearly; and compensation for buildings and structures will be paid by replacing huts, houses, farm outbuildings, latrines, fences and other impacted structures. Any homes lost will be rebuilt on the acquired replacement land. However, cash compensation will be available as a preferred option for structures, such as, extra buildings lost, that are not the main house or house in which someone is living. The applicable replacement costs for construction materials, as well as associated labor costs needed to build replacement structure, will be used to calculate the values.
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