Received:
2017-03-10 | Accepted:
2017-07-25 | Published:
2017-09-29
Title
Current development of business environment in Slovakia and Czech Republic
Abstract
At the time of globalisation business environment of a country is significantly affect success of domestic businesses, respectively their products, on foreign markets. Also, conditions for business of a state have an influence on its attractiveness for potential foreign investments. The paper provides results of the analysis and subsequent comparison of business environments of Slovakia and Czech Republic and other selected countries over 2014 - 2015 on the basis of data provided by organisations dealing with business environment surveys such as the World Bank, World Economic Forum and Heritage Foundation. Critical insights, which could be instrumental for economic policy implications are formulated.
Keywords
business environment, doing business, global competitiveness report, index of economic freedom, Slovakia, Czech Republic
JEL classifications
E22
, F21
, F43
URI
http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/138
DOI
HAL
Pages
127-137
Funding
The paper is the output of a scientific project IGA no. 3/2017 „Development of international business and international management in the conditions of globalization” (Funder: VSEMvs IGA VSEMvs, i.e. School of Economics and Management in Public Administration)
This is an open access issue and all published articles are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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