The staff of the Business Library of the Brooklyn Public Library answers more than 175,000 reference questions each year, many of them requests for rankings information. To provide quick answers to questions in the highest interest subject areas, we have compiled Business Rankings Annual. Working from a bibliographic file we have built up over the years, we have culled thousands of items from periodicals, newspapers, financial services, directories, statistical annuals and other printed material. The "top ten" from each of these rankings appears in this volume, grouped under standard subject headings for easy browsing. Typical entries provide: sequential entry number; rankings title: A descriptive phrase, identifying the contents of the list cited; ranked by: Indicates the criteria that establish the hierarchy; remarks: Provides additional details relating to the list from the source material; number listed: Notes the number of listees in the ranking source; top 10 items on the list; and source. Readers can quickly locate all rankings in which a given company; person or product appears by consulting the reference's comprehensive index. In addition, a complete listing of more than 300 sources used to compile Business Rankings Annual is provided in the bibliography.

Seventeen in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2020 measures aspects of regulation affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity.

Fifteen in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2018 measures aspects of regulation affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity: • Starting a business • Dealing with construction permits • Getting electricity • Registering property • Getting credit • Protecting minority investors • Paying taxes • Trading across borders • Enforcing contracts • Resolving insolvency These areas are included in the distance to frontier score and ease of doing business ranking. Doing Business also measures features of labor market regulation, which is not included in these two measures. The report updates all indicators as of June 1, 2017, ranks economies on their overall “ease of doing business†?, and analyzes reforms to business regulation †“ identifying which economies are strengthening their business environment the most. Doing Business illustrates how reforms in business regulations are being used to analyze economic outcomes for domestic entrepreneurs and for the wider economy. It is a flagship product produced in partnership by the World Bank Group that garners worldwide attention on regulatory barriers to entrepreneurship. More than 137 economies have used the Doing Business indicators to shape reform agendas and monitor improvements on the ground. In addition, the Doing Business data has generated over 2,182 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals since its inception. Data Notes; Distance to Frontier and Ease of Doing Business Ranking; and Summaries of Doing Business Reforms in 2016/17 can be downloaded separately from the Doing Business website.