Ireland is world's seventh freest economy - report (HK is #1, USA #4 in WSJ / Heritage report)

The Irish Times ^ | January 16, 2007 | David Labanyi

[Stoat]

John Stossel did a segement on 20/20 about 8 years ago on the problems with starting a business in America. To compare to went to India where it can take over a decade or more to get all the necessary permits and apporvals from government to do virtually anything. He then went to Hong Kong and was able to open a small business in a mall in 24 hours.

Wow, that's just astonishing. India is legendary for their mountains of paperwork and legal forms, but TEN YEARS....that's just awful.

I wonder how long it took for the companies that wanted to start call centers there to get going?  Perhaps because they are large corporations mainly, they might have been fast-tracked through the maze.

[Stoat]

Ireland is great, I hope to work there at some point.

I already have the dual citizenship. They are doing all the right things.

Good luck to you and I hope that everything will work out in the way that you want it to.  You could certainly do far worse, and it seems to only be getting better there.

[Central Scrutiniser]

Well, getting the dual citizenship was easy, and its a great EU work permit.

[Colosis]

Cheers Irish! Yes, good to hear some nice things about Ireland - wonder how long this freedom will last!!

[Irish_Thatcherite]

wonder how long this freedom will last!!

Time to start making bets on who destroys Irish liberty first - the IRA or the EU? Both together?