By Robeert Anderson
Fiscal progress is the single method out of poverty, and the personal region is better at producing that development.
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Of the large public companies, the proportion that is widely held is not high except in the United States, United Kingdom, and Japan. In these three countries, the proportion is 80 to 100 percent. In other countries, the proportion is smaller, for example, 60 percent in Canada, Switzerland, and France; 50 percent in Germany; and 10 percent or less in Hong Kong, Austria, Belgium, and Greece. A high proportion of even the large public companies in most rich countries are in the second category of having a controlling or strategic investor.
If so, they are sometimes referred to as a public company as opposed to a private company 41 JUST GET OUT OF THE WAY (a public company should not be confused with a company owned by the government referred to in later chapters as a state-owned company or enterprise). Government regulatory agencies and stock exchanges usually require a public company to meet certain requirements concerning the treatment of its shareholders for the purpose of protecting investors. If a company is of the first type (closely held), it is unlikely to be a public company whose shares are listed and traded on a stock exchange.
If one wants to use a shorthand term to refer to everything that influences the behavior or performance of a business, a better term is business environment. This term refers to all of the laws, regulations, government policies, and institutions that encourage businesses to perform well. Improving the business environment is the main subject of this book, and therefore I obviously believe it is important. This book covers some of the major reforms needed to improve the business environment involving banking, competition policy, privatization, and bankruptcy.