{"id":27348,"date":"2012-10-25T10:36:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T14:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=27348"},"modified":"2012-10-25T10:43:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T14:43:15","slug":"bahamas-slips-in-world-bank-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/10\/bahamas-slips-in-world-bank-rankings","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Slips In World Bank Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24285\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24285\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24285\" title=\"winston-rolle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/winston-rolle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/winston-rolle.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/winston-rolle-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24285\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winston Rolle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Bahamas is standing still and allowing rival jurisdictions to \u201cleapfrog\u201d it on economic competitiveness, the Chamber of Commerce\u2019s chief executive warned Tuesday, after this nation slipped another six spots to 77th in the World Bank\u2019s Ease of Doing Business rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Winston Rolle said the 2013 rankings, released Tuesday, showed the Bahamas \u201cneeds to be paying a lot more attention\u201d to key processes and areas that attracted both international and domestic investment, this nation having fallen in a number of key categories.<\/p>\n<p>The Bahamas suffered the biggest ranking decline when it came to \u2018the ease\u2019 of starting a business, falling from 74th to 82nd in the world. It also fell five places &#8211; from 63rd to 68th &#8211; on the issue of obtaining construction permits.<\/p>\n<p>The report, produced jointly by the World Bank and its International Finance Corporation (IFC) arm, also dropped the Bahamas three places when it came to obtaining credit and protecting investors, placing this nation 83rd and 117th, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamas has fallen in several key areas in the World Bank\u2019s Ease of Doing Business rankings, indicating that the country \u201cneeds to be paying a lot more attention\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[29,98],"class_list":["post-27348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-economy","tag-financial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}