Barriers and Opportunities for Enhancing Capital Flows
In the COMCEC Member Countries
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A summary of the COMCEC Country performance against the Global Competitiveness
Index, Doing Business report and the EIU’s Business Environment Rankings
Sources: World Economic Forum, “The Global Competitiveness Report 2013-2014”90.
90 Available at World Bank,
“Doing Business 2013” Available at
he Economist Intelligence Unit, Business Environment Rankings
World Economic
Forum World Bank
Economist Intelligence
Unit
(Sorted by highest to
lowest ranked in WEF -
Global Competitiveness
Index)
Global
Competitiveness
Index 2013-2014 -
Overall Ranking (out
of 148)
Doing Business
Report 2013 - Ease
of Doing Business
Rank (out of 185)
EIU Business Environment
Rankings 2013 - Average
(Where 10 is highest)*
Qatar 13 40 7.74
United Arab Emirates 19 26 7.5
Saudi Arabia 20 22 6.98
Malaysia 24 12 7.64
Brunei 26 79 n.a.
Oman 33 47 n.a.
Kuwait 36 82 7.1
Indonesia 38 128 6.6
Azerbaijan 39 67 5.14
Bahrain 43 42 7.08
Turkey 44 71 6.66
Kazakhstan 50 49 5.74
Jordan 68 106 6.32
Morocco 77 97 5.78
Iran 82 145 3.5
Tunisia 83 50 5.66
Albania 95 85 n.a.
Algeria 100 152 4.94
Guyana 102 114 n.a.
Lebanon 103 115 n.a.
Suriname 106 164 n.a.
Libya 108 5.1
Bangladesh 110 129 5.96
Gabon 112 170 n.a.
Senegal 113 166 n.a.
Cameroon 115 161 n.a.
Gambia 116 147 n.a.
Egypt 118 109 5.68
Nigeria 120 131 5.4
Kyrgyz Republic 121 70 n.a.
Cote d’Ivoire 126 177 n.a.
Uganda 129 120 n.a.
Benin 130 175 n.a.
Pakistan 133 107 5.3
Mali 135 151 n.a.
Mozambique 137 146 5.22
Burkina Faso 140 153 n.a.
Mauritania 141 167 n.a.
Sierra Leone 144 140 n.a.
Yemen 145 118 n.a.
Guinea 147 178 n.a.
Chad 148 184 4.16
Afghanistan n.a. 168 n.a.
Comoros n.a. 158 4.22
Djibouti n.a. 171 n.a.
Guinea-Bissau n.a. 179 n.a.
Iraq n.a. 165 n.a.
Maldives n.a. 95 n.a.
Niger n.a. 176 n.a.
Palestine n.a. n.a. n.a.
Somalia n.a. n.a. n.a.
Sudan n.a. 143 n.a.
Syria n.a. 144 n.a.
Tajikistan n.a. 141 n.a.
Togo n.a. 156 n.a.
Turkmenistan n.a. n.a. n.a.
Uzbekistan n.a. 154 n.a.