International and Emerging Markets Blog

The top 10 countries being strangled by red tape

Wednesday, February 01, 2012 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Brazil, India, Thought leadership | Tags: India, governance, report, growth, infographic, research, IBR, International business report, Brazil, expansion, regulation, red tape, Greece, bureaucracy, Australia, restraints, Poland

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Our graphic shows, by country, the percentage of businesses citing bureaucracy and regulations as a constraint on growth. Brazil is the BRIC most affected, while our International Business Report (IBR) research also shows India moving up the red tape rankings.

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Women in the boardroom 2004-2011 (infographic)

Tuesday, August 23, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Thought leadership | Tags: business, India, statistics, China, infographic, data, research, IBR, women in business, women, gender, board, diversity, Russia, female, International Business Report, map

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The percentage of women in senior management roles makes for fascinating reading across different countries. But now you can also compare how countries rank over time using data from Grant Thornton’s International Business Reports since 2004 – just click on the image left to see the full infographic on Many Eyes, or read on for the summary.

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Who’s winning the global race to economic growth?

Friday, January 15, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
| Tags: economy, infographic, LSE, GDP

Predicting when an economy will grow or shrink is an inexact science, but Grant Thornton’s latest infographic takes the pulse of 14 recession-hit economies around the world to assess their economic fitness. It looks at GDP figures between 1997-2009 to see how countries such as the UK, France, Germany and the USA have performed – and to see who’s winning the race back to economic growth…

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