Tentmaker Reports
Dominica Report
Entrepreneurial Missions Index
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General Information
Population
67,757 (176th most populous country in the world)
| LANGUAGES | |
|---|---|
| English | 82.1% |
| Spanish | 10.7% |
| Other Indo-Euro | 3.8% |
| Asian & Pacific Isl. | 2.7% |
| Other | 0.7% |
Industries
Petroleum, steel, motor vehicles, aerospace, telecommunications, chemicals, electronics, food processing, consumer goods, lumber, mining
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 Dominica, visit https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/dm.html.
Business Information
The World Bank ranks Dominica as 64 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 Dominica.
In order to start a business in Dominica, one must follow these procedures:
- Search for a company name and reserve the proposed name
- Lawyer verifies affidavit
- Registration with the Commercial Registry
- Apply for taxpayer identification number (register the company for tax)
- Register as employer with social security institute
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 Dominica, visit http://www.doingbusiness.org/.
Dominica 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.
Dominica Summary
Dominica 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.
