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 Antigua and Barbuda; for 2019 Antigua and Barbuda ranks 112.
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The Public and Social Sector Transformation Project of Antigua and Barbuda had a highly satisfactory overall outcome, an unsatisfactory performance by the Bank and the monitoring and evaluation quality was modest.
... See More + The lessons learned were: (1) Importance of designing “vanilla” operations when engaging with a first-time borrower with limited institutional capacity. (2) “The chain is as strong as its weekend link”. (3) Instead of aiming for large overall, public sector reforms, in a context such as Antigua and Barbuda’s, a project should opt for a focus on technical aspects, tailoring decisions to the borrower context. (4) Importance of building deep, national consensus around reforms. (5) Working with a new borrower requires a different kind of engagement.
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Implementation Completion and Results Report ICR4379 MAR 28, 2018
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 Antigua and Barbuda. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulation and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 190 economies; for 2018 Antigua and Barbuda ranks 107. 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 objectives of Public and Social Sector Transformation Project for Antigua and Barbuda is to assist the Borrower in: (i) strengthening its capacity in managing public policies and the public service; (ii) improving the efficiency of social protection spending through an integrated monitoring and targeting system; and (iii) improving the income and employability of the vulnerable population through temporary employment and training programs.
... See More + The second level of restructuring would entail: (i) cancellation of the unwithdrawn loan balance; (ii) a change in the project closing date to September 30, 2017; and (iii) a reallocation of loan proceeds.
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The Country Opinion Survey in Antigua and Barbuda assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Antigua and Barbuda 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 Antigua and Barbuda on 1) their views regarding the general environment in Antigua and Barbuda; 2) their overall attitudes toward the WBG in Antigua and Barbuda; 3) overall impressions of the WBG’s effectiveness and results, knowledge work and activities, and communication and information sharing in Antigua and Barbuda; and 4) their perceptions of the WBG’s future role in Antigua and Barbuda.
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This economy profile presents the Doing Business indicators for Antigua and Barbuda. 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 Antigua and Barbuda ranks 107. 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 overall objective of Antigua and Barbuda Skills Training and Empowerment Program Project (ABSTEP) is to improve the employability and expand the possibilities of employment among the most vulnerable, and to contribute to improving the physical environment of Antigua’s low-income communities.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: maintain the speed of the vehicles involved in the works below 20 mph; keep noise levels of teams below 90 db; In residential areas or those near to hospitals, measures to mitigate the noise level may be more stringent, such as restricting the hours and number of hours allowed for the use of equipment that generate noise; review daily hygiene conditions in which workers operate, and ensure water and sanitary facilities area available; In the case of healthcare services projects, cleaning of the facility where services are provided must be checked daily; trash and debris should be stored in designated areas and collected by licensed haulers; standing water shall not be permitted to accumulate at work sites; sediment and silt will be stopped from leaving the site to drains or canals by barriers, berms, catchments, or other measures.
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