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Article: The US slips down the business environment league table.
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- M2 Presswire
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- June 27, 2002
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The risks of terrorism, war and trade conflicts, combined with growing macroeconomic imbalances and concerns about corporate governance, have pushed the US from first place to fifth in the latest set of Business environment rankings from the Economist Intelligence Unit.
The US business environment, the best in the world in 1997-2001, is, over the next five years, expected to be less attractive than those of the Netherlands, Canada, Finland and the UK. The fall in the US ranking for 2002-06 is in part due to the ongoing threat of further terrorist attacks on US soil. There is also an appreciable risk that the US will engage in ...