EIU's index measures the relative costs of doing business in 27 economies by compiling statistics relating to wages, costs for expatriate staff, air travel and subsistence, corporation taxes, perceived corruption levels, office and industrial rents, and road transport.

ECONOMIST: BUSINESS COSTS

These paradoxical statistics require advisors to ask themselves why clients are not doing what they say they want.

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