BLOOMBERG RANKINGS

BEST FOR BUSINESS IN EMERGING ASIA 2014: COUNTRIES

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Degree of Cost of setting Cost of labor Cost of Readiness of local economic up a business & material moving Less-tangible consumer base Rank Country Total score integration score score score goods score costs score score 1 China 69.6 75.4 78.8 67.2 84.3 49.3 61.3 1 Malaysia 69.6 69.2 81.1 62.8 79.2 59.5 61.4 3 Thailand 62.5 72.4 79.0 56.3 72.0 43.2 51.3 4 India 61.1 82.2 61.4 70.4 74.5 31.0 54.5 5 Vietnam 59.2 70.6 80.6 56.9 68.7 26.8 55.7 6 Indonesia 59.1 75.1 60.2 69.0 66.9 32.9 58.2 7 Brunei Darussalam 58.6 21.4 57.2 56.1 58.2 81.2 59.3 8 Philippines 56.6 66.4 51.0 53.9 66.3 52.9 51.0 9 Sri Lanka 53.1 53.4 56.9 54.9 65.2 34.6 54.3 10 Mongolia 48.6 45.5 81.5 43.4 30.6 38.7 52.1 11 Pakistan 48.4 58.3 39.1 74.7 62.0 16.1 42.4 12 Bangladesh 47.2 47.7 60.9 60.5 45.9 23.9 42.3 SOURCES: Bloomberg, CIA World Factbook, Eurostat, Heritage Foundation, International Monetary Fund, International Labor Organization, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Transparency International, World Bank, World Health Organization and others. AS OF: January 3, 2014 METHODOLOGY: Bloomberg identified the best countries for business based on their overall business, commerce and trade climate. Countries and sovereigns were ranked on the following six weighted factors for a combined score from zero to 100: 1. Degree of economic integration (weighting of 10%) Includes membership in the World Trade Organization, most-favored nation tariffs, co-dependence with the global market, market concentration and reach of global market research. 2. Cost of setting up a business (20%) Includes the costs, steps and time required, as well as financing a business and foreign direct investment. 3. Cost of labor & material (20%) Includes cost of labor (productivity, compensation, health expenditures and size of labor force) and cost of material (natural resource rate of depletion and natural resource rent). 4. Cost of moving goods (20%) Includes import and export efficiencies, transportation efficiency, logistics performance, liner shipping connectivity and quality of port infrastructure. 5. Less-tangible costs (20%) Includes Corruption Perception Index, International Property Rights Index, inflation, various taxation concerns and accounting adaptability. 6. Readiness of the local consumer base (10%) Includes size of middle class, household consumption, tariff on imports and GDP per capita. Scores for each factor were calculated using a percentage of the maximum for index-based and qualitative criteria and a percentage rank for the quantitative criteria. Of the 214 countries and sovereigns evaluated, 157 had sufficient data to be ranked. For regional bests, we display countries with scores that came within two-thirds of that of the top-ranked in the region.
Bloomberg 2014