| BURKINABE GOVERNMENT STATS: |
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Capital city
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Ouagadougou |
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Corruption
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3.4 |
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[70th of 160]
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Parliamentary seats > Female
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8% |
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[85th of 143]
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Procedures to enforce a contract > number
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41
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[47th of 170]
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Procedures to register property > number
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8
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[22nd of 167]
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Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament > %
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11.7 %
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[105th of 174]
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Start-up procedures to register a business > number
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8
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[104th of 171]
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Status
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pseudo-democracy |
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Suffrage
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universal |
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Time required to build a warehouse > days
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226 days
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[55th of 168]
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Time required to enforce a contract > days
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446 days
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[93rd of 171]
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Time required to register property > days
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107 days
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[40th of 167]
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Time required to start a business > days
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34 days
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[90th of 171]
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Time to prepare and pay taxes > hours
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270 hours
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[75th of 169]
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Time to resolve insolvency > years
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4 years
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[35th of 151]
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Total businesses registered > number
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221
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[60th of 71]
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Transnational Issues > Disputes > International
two villages remain in dispute along the border with Benin; Benin accuses Burkina Faso of moving boundary pillars; in recent years citizens and rogue security forces rob and harass local populations on both sides of the poorly-defined Burkina Faso-Niger border; despite the presence of over 9,000 UN forces (UNOCI) in Cote d'Ivoire since 2004, ethnic conflict continues to spread into neighboring states who can no longer send their migrant workers to work in Ivorian cocoa plantations |
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UN membership date
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20 Sep. 1960 |
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United Nations mission
http://www.mae.gov.bf/ (Francais) |
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Washington, D.C. embassies > Neighborhood
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Embassy Row |
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