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Global Edge: Using the Opacity Index to Manage the Risks of Cross-Border Business. By Joel Kurtzman and Glenn Yago. Harvard Business School Press, 224 pages. $29.95.
Opacity is, logically, the obverse of transparency, and that's the core concept that authors Kurtzman and Yago had in mind when they created the Opacity Index. In essence, they wanted to be able to rank countries on a set of key factors that determine how easy it is for corporations to successfully do business there;...