Tentmaker Reports
Antigua and Barbuda Report
Entrepreneurial Missions Index
23.9
General Information
Population
88,710 (175th most populous country in the world)
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Industries
Tourism, construction, light manufacturing (clothing, alcohol, household appliances)
Unless otherwise noted, all information included here was obtained from the World Factbook project 4, conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). For more detailed information about Antigua and Barbuda, visit https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ag.html.
Business Information
The World Bank ranks Antigua and Barbuda as 0 out of 183 economies in terms of ease of doing business. The country ranks as 0 (of 183) in terms of ease of starting a business.It requires 0 procedures, takes 0 days, and costs N/A% of income per capita to start a business in Antigua and Barbuda.
In order to start a business in Antigua and Barbuda, one must follow these procedures:
- Search and reserve company name
- Have lawyer prepare incorporation documents
- Register with the Intellectual Property and Commerce Office (receive certificate of incorporation)
- Make a company seal
- Apply for tax payer identification number (register the company for tax)
- Register for VAT / ABST identification number
- Register for medical benefit
- Register for social security and education levy
Unless otherwise noted, all information included here was obtained from the Doing Business project 3, conducted by the World Bank. For more detailed information about starting a business in Antigua and Barbuda, visit http://www.doingbusiness.org/.
Antigua and Barbuda Economic Freedom
The annual survey Economic Freedom of the World is an indicator produced by the Fraser Institute, a libertarian think tank which attempts to measure the degree of economic freedom in the world's nations. Economic Freedom of the World index has been more widely used than any other measure of economic freedom, because of its coverage of a longer time period
Their measure of economic freedom is based on that the following standards:
- Personal choice rather than collective choice,
- Voluntary exchange coordinated by markets rather than allocation via the political process,
- Freedom to enter and compete in markets, and
- Protection of persons and their property from aggression by others.
A state will rate high when it focuses on protection of people and their property from the actions of aggressors, enforcement of contracts, and provision of the limited set of public goods like roads, flood control projects, and money of stable value and little else, but a country’s rating on the EFW summary index will fall as government expenditures increase and regulations expand.
Antigua and Barbuda Summary
Antigua and Barbuda Links
2 Free the World
Gwartney, James and Robert Lawson with Herbert Grubel, Jakob de Haan, Jan-Egbert Sturm, and Eelco Zandberg (2009). Economic Freedom of the World: 2009 Annual Report. Vancouver, BC: The Fraser Institute. Data retrieved from www.freetheworld.com.
