Equal Opportunity for All
A World Bank Group Flagship Report
Doing Business
Comparing Business Regulation
for Domestic Firms in 190 Economies
2017
14TH EDITION
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COMPARING BUSINESS REGULATIONFOR DOMESTIC FIRMS IN
190
ECONOMIES
A World Bank Group Flagship Report
Doing Business 2017
Equal Opportunity for All
14TH EDITION
Doing Business 2017
Resources on the
Doing Business
website
Current features
News on the
Doing Business
project
http://www.doingbusiness
Rankings
How economies rank—from 1 to 190
http://www.doingbusiness/rankings
Data
All the data for 190 economies—topic
rankings, indicator values, lists of
regulatory procedures and details
underlying indicators
http://www.doingbusiness/data
Reports
Access to
Doing Business
reports as well
as subnational and regional reports, case
studies and customized economy and
regional proles
http://www.doingbusiness/reports
Methodology
The methodologies and research papers
underlying
Doing Business
http://www.doingbusiness/methodology
Research
Abstracts of papers on
Doing Business
topics and related policy issues
http://www.doingbusiness/research
Doing Business
reforms
Short summaries of DB2017 business
regulation reforms and lists of reforms
since DB2006
http://www.doingbusiness/reforms
Historical data
Customized data sets since DB2004
http://www.doingbusiness/custom-query
Law library
Online collection of business laws and
regulations relating to business
http://www.doingbusiness/law-library
Contributors
More than 12,500 specialists in 190
economies who participate in
Doing Business
http://www.doingbusiness/contributors
/doing-business
Entrepreneurship data
Data on new business density (number
of newly registered companies per 1,000
working-age people) for 136 economies
http://www.doingbusiness/data
/exploretopics/entrepreneurship
Distance to frontier
Data benchmarking 190 economies to
the frontier in regulatory practice and a
distance to frontier calculator
http://www.doingbusiness
/data/distance-to-frontier
Information on good practices
Showing where the many good
practices identied by
Doing Business
have been adopted
http://www.doingbusiness/data
/good-practice
Doing Business 2017
iv Foreword
1 Overview
13 About
Doing Business
25 Reforming the Business Environment in 2015/16
Case studies
44 Getting Electricity
Factors afecting the reliability of electricity supply
52 Getting Credit: Legal Rights
Two approaches to developing an integrated secured transactions regime
58 Getting Credit: Credit Information
Casting a wide net to expand nancial inclusion
65 Protecting Minority Investors
Achieving sound corporate governance
72 Paying Taxes
Assessing postling processes
79 Trading Across Borders
Technology gains in trade facilitation
87 Annex: Labor Market Regulation
What can we learn from
Doing Business
data
96 Annex: Selling to the Government
Why public procurement matters
102 References
114 Data Notes
164 Distance to Frontier and Ease of Doing Business Ranking
170 Summaries of
Doing Business
Reforms in 2015/16
188 Country Tables
252 Labor Market Regulation Data
272 Acknowledgments
Contents
艠
Doing Business
2017
is the 14th in a
series of annual reports investigating
the regulations that enhance business
activity and those that constrain it.
Doing Business
presents quantitative
indicators on business regulation
and the protection of property rights
that can be compared across 190
economies—from Afghanistan to
Zimbabwe—and over time.
艠
Doing Business
measures aspects of
regulation afecting 11 areas of the
life of a business. Ten of these areas
are included in this year’s ranking on
the ease of doing business: starting a
business, dealing with construction
permits, getting electricity, registering
property, getting credit, protecting
minority investors, paying taxes, trading
across borders, enforcing contracts,
and resolving insolvency.
Doing Business
also measures features of labor market
regulation, which is not included
in the ranking.
艠Data in
Doing Business
2017
are current
as of June 1, 2016. The indicators are
used to analyze economic outcomes
and identify what reforms of business
regulation have worked, where and why.
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