World Bank "Doing Business" Ratings

http://rru.worldbank.org/DoingBusiness/

The World Bank, on its mission to drown the globe in useful data, offers a rigorous, quantitative indicator of the quality of business regulation in countries around the world. Broken down into categories: starting a business, labor, contracts, credit, and bankruptcy. There's a few basic stats, too, including size of the informal economy -- hard to find elsewhere.

KEYWORDS: labor, informal economy statistics, legal system, regulatory quality