One-Stop Shopping in Portugal

Manuel Leitão Marques, Maria

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One-Stop Shopping in Portugal

dc.contributor.author	Manuel Leitão Marques, Maria
dc.date.accessioned	2012-08-13T12:28:57Z
dc.date.available	2012-08-13T12:28:57Z
dc.date.issued	2007-12
dc.description.abstract	In 2005, it took 11 procedures and 78 days to start a business in Portugal, making it slower than the Democratic Republic of Congo. An entrepreneur would need 20 forms and documents, more than for any other European Union (EU) country, and the total cost was 13.5 percent of the gross national income (GNI). As soon as new Prime Minister Jose Socrates took office in March of 2005, the planning for reform began, and in four months Empresa Na Hora (On the Spot Firm), the Portuguese one-stop shop for creating a company, was fully operational. Portugal is now one of the easiest countries to start a business in, taking only seven procedures, and the total cost has decreased to 3.4 percent of the GNI.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/12/9891115/one-stop-shopping-portugal
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10629
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries	IFC Smart Lessons Brief
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/
dc.subject	ACCESS TO INFORMATION
dc.subject	ACCOUNT
dc.subject	ACCOUNTABILITY
dc.subject	ACCOUNTING
dc.subject	ADVISORY SERVICES
dc.subject	BRAINSTORMING
dc.subject	BUDGETING
dc.subject	BUREAUCRACY
dc.subject	BUSINESS ENTRY
dc.subject	BUSINESSES
dc.subject	COMPLAINTS
dc.subject	CONFIDENCE
dc.subject	ENTREPRENEURS
dc.subject	FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
dc.subject	INITIATIVE
dc.subject	JUSTICE
dc.subject	MINISTER
dc.subject	MINISTERS
dc.subject	NUMBER OF USERS
dc.subject	ONE-STOP SHOP
dc.subject	ONLINE SERVICES
dc.subject	PERFORMANCE MEASURES
dc.subject	POLITICAL WILL
dc.subject	PRIVATE SECTOR
dc.subject	PUBLIC OFFICIALS
dc.subject	REFORMS
dc.subject	RESULT
dc.subject	RESULTS
dc.subject	TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
dc.subject	TRANSPARENCY
dc.title	One-Stop Shopping in Portugal	en
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crosscuttingsolutionarea	Public-Private Partnerships
okr.doctype	Publications & Research :: Brief
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/12/9891115/one-stop-shopping-portugal
okr.globalpractice	Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience
okr.globalpractice	Governance
okr.globalpractice	Transport and ICT
okr.globalpractice	Trade and Competitiveness
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum	000334955_20080929060058
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum	9891115
okr.identifier.report	45656
okr.language.supported	en
okr.pdfurl	http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2008/09/29/000334955_20080929060058/Rendered/PDF/456560BRI0Box31gal1201clean11301107.pdf	en
okr.region.administrative	Europe and Central Asia
okr.region.country	Portugal
okr.topic	Public Sector Corruption and Anticorruption Measures
okr.topic	Social Development :: Children and Youth
okr.topic	Enterprise Development and Reform
okr.topic	Private Sector Development :: E-Business
okr.topic	Private Sector Development :: Business in Development
okr.topic	Public Sector Development
okr.unit	Fin Infrastructure & Inst Build (CGFIB)
okr.volume	1 of 1
relation.isSeriesOfPublication	99147cd6-fa98-4a58-b3e7-81af3f4ffd98