Transparent environments are countries highly ranked in ease of doing business and low levels of briberies. Here, the procedures to start up and run a business are well known and easily accomplishable. These countries offer simple customs procedures and a wide access to credit. These countries also have a stable and favorable legal framework for firms and provide to entrepreneurs fast and inexpensive legal instruments protecting them from infringements. Their openness to trade is due to fair rules consistently applied without briberies, gifts or illegal commissions. Transpar-ent environments offer the minimum risks to trade: the rules and procedures in these countries are simple, inexpensive and fast with fair and incorruptible regulatory regimes. Additionally, we find a high level of competition for countries in this quadrant