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Best Countries for Business

For the fourth time, Forbes Magazine has published its annual Best Countries for Business ranking. For the second straight year Denmark has taken the No.1 spot.

Best Countries for Business:
1. Denmark
2. USA
3. Canada
4. Singapore
5. New Zealand
6. United Kingdom
7. Sweden
8. Australia
9. Hong Kong
10. Norway

Forbes analysed business climates in each of 127 national economies, focusing on degrees of trade freedom, monetary freedom like the right to participate in free and fair elections, or freedom of expression and organization.

The Criteria

• Trade Freedom
• Monetary Freedom
• Property Rights
• Innovation
• Technology
• Red Tape
• Investor Protection
• Corruption
• Personal Freedom
• Tax Burden
• Market Performance

Forbes used the following sources: Heritage Foundation (Economic Freedom Index); World Economic Forum (Global Competitiveness Report); Transparency International (Corruption Perceptions Index); Freedom House (Personal Freedom Index); Deloitte (World Tax Rates); World Bank (Doing Business); Central Intelligence Agency (World Factbook); Property Rights Alliance (International Property Rights Index).

Source: Forbes Best Countries for Business

About Alessio Marziali

Alessio Marziali (MCTS) is a Security Consultant with 9 years of experience developing secure applications with Microsoft .NET in a variety of sectors in UK and Italy. Published technical author with two ASP.NET books currently available for purchase and OWASP Code Crawler Project Leader.