#6 United Kingdom

Procedures necessary to start a business - 6

Days required to start business – 13

According to Wired, the government has been trying to lure entrepreneurs and investors by introducing “an entirely new type of visa, created for ‘prospective entrepreneurs’” in 2011. Foreign entrepreneurs and investors can now settle in the UK in as little as two years, depending on how much money they can inject into the economy, compared to the minimum five years for other visas.  

Based on market exchange rates the UK is today the sixth-largest economy in the world and the third-largest in Europe after Germany and France, having fallen behind France for the first time in over a decade in 2008. London is one of the three "command centers" of the global economy (alongside New York City and Tokyo), is the world's largest financial centre alongside New York, and has the largest city GDP in Europe.

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