| BHUTANESE GOVERNMENT STATS: |
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Capital city
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Thimphu |
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Parliamentary seats > Female
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2% |
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[132nd of 143]
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Political parties and leaders
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no legal parties |
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Political pressure groups and leaders
Buddhist clergy; ethnic Nepalese organizations leading militant antigovernment campaign; Indian merchant community; United Front for Democracy (exiled) |
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Prime minister
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Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk |
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Procedures to build a warehouse > number
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26
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[15th of 168]
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Procedures to enforce a contract > number
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34
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[78th of 170]
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Procedures to register property > number
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5
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[101st of 167]
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Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament > %
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2.7 %
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[164th of 174]
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Start-up procedures to register a business > number
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10
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[80th of 171]
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Status
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absolute monarchy |
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Suffrage
each family has one vote in village-level elections |
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Time required to build a warehouse > days
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204 days
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[69th of 168]
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Time required to enforce a contract > days
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275 days
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[145th of 171]
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Time required to register property > days
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93 days
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[49th of 167]
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Time required to start a business > days
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62 days
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[34th of 171]
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Time to prepare and pay taxes > hours
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274 hours
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[67th of 169]
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Transnational Issues > Disputes > International
over 100,000 Bhutanese Lhotshampas (Hindus) have been confined in seven UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees camps since 1990; Bhutan cooperates with India to expel Indian Nagaland separatists; lacking any treaty describing the boundary, Bhutan and China continue negotiations to establish a boundary alignment to resolve substantial cartographic discrepancies, the largest of which lies in Bhutan's northwest |
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UN membership date
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21 Sep. 1971 |
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United Nations mission
http://www.bhutannewsonline.com/foreign-relations.html |
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