Sweden's Business Climate

This report’s starting point is thus to
acknowledge that despite Sweden’s many virtues, there are
areas in which it can do better, and the task has been to
identify those areas, focusing particularly on the quality
of the investment climate and competitiveness. This has been
done in two main ways. First, by looking at areas of the
business environment captured by databases compiled in the
World Bank Group’s Global Indicators Group—Doing Business,
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Regulations, and Women,
Business and the Law. And second, by examining other
critical areas where there is a large body of data,
knowledge and insight that casts relevant light on several
key policy challenges facing the country in coming years. In
the paragraphs that follow we present a summary of the
report’s main conclusions.