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Central America and the Caribbean > Nicaragua > Government

NICARAGUAN GOVERNMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Capital city Managua
Corruption 2.6 [115th of 160]
Parliamentary seats > Female 10% [68th of 143]
Procedures to enforce a contract > number 20 ... [157th of 170]
Procedures to register property > number 8 ... [31st of 167]
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament > % 20.7 % ... [52nd of 174]
Start-up procedures to register a business > number 6 ... [141st of 171]
Status
democracy
Suffrage
16 years of age; universal
Time required to build a warehouse > days 192 days ... [80th of 168]
Time required to enforce a contract > days 486 days ... [81st of 171]
Time required to register property > days 124 days ... [33rd of 167]
Time required to start a business > days 39 days ... [72nd of 171]
Time to prepare and pay taxes > hours 240 hours ... [88th of 169]
Time to resolve insolvency > years 2.2 years ... [100th of 151]
Trademarks, nonresidents 4,204 ... [25th of 99]
Trademarks, residents 1,142 ... [47th of 98]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > International
memorials and countermemorials were filed by the parties in Nicaragua's 1999 and 2001 proceedings against Honduras and Colombia at the ICJ over the maritime boundary and territorial claims in the western Caribbean Sea, final public hearings are scheduled for 2007; the 1992 ICJ ruling for El Salvador and Honduras advised a tripartite resolution to establish a maritime boundary in the Gulf of Fonseca, which considers Honduran access to the Pacific; legal dispute over navigational rights of San Juan River on border with Costa Rica
UN membership date 24 Oct. 1945
United Nations mission
http://consuladodenicaragua.com/
http://www.un.int/nicaragua/ (espanol)

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Transparency International; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; World Development Indicators database; electionworld.org; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; Wisconsin High School Model United Nations

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Nicaragua, Republic of Nicaragua, Republica de Nicaragua

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