The objective of First Fiscal Reform and Resilience Development Policy Credit Project for St. Vincent and the Grenadines is to support the Government of St.
... See More + Vincent and the Grenadines in building a more resilient economy through: (i) strengthening fiscal policy and public financial management; and (ii) strengthening climate resilience and adaptation. Pursuing a blue growth agenda in a small, tourism‐based economy highly dependent on its natural environment is a function of building on its natural assets, reinforcing climate resilience, strengthening fiscal buffers and ensuring macroeconomic stability. Each of these areas reinforce and complement each other and are necessary to ensure a comprehensive approach that is both technically sound from an environmental and climate resilience perspective, as well as being affordable and sustainable given available resources. Moreover, the integration of climate resilience and adaptationreforms with fiscal reform and fiscal resilience dialogue in SVG will further the Government’s effort to mainstream climate resilience into its broader development agenda, focusing on key sectors for developing a blue economy – such as nature‐based tourism and fisheries. Hence the focus in this series on two pillars necessary for building resilience: fiscal reform and public financial management as well as climate resilience and adaptation.
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Sixteenth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2019 covers 11 areas of business regulation.
... See More + Ten of these areas - 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 - are included in the ease of doing business score and ease of doing business ranking. Doing Business also measures features of labor market regulation, which is not included in these two measures. Doing Business provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 190 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level. This economy profile presents indicators for St. Vincent and the Grenadines; for 2019 St. Vincent and the Grenadines ranks 130.
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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 Country Opinion Survey in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines perceive the WBG.
... See More + It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private sector, and civil society in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on 1) their views regarding the general environment in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; 2) their overall attitudes toward the WBG in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; 3) overall impressions of the WBG’s effectiveness and results, knowledge work and activities, and communication and information sharing in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; and 4) their perceptions of the WBG’s future role in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
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