Doing Business 2010

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The seventh 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 regulations and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 183 economies--from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe--and over time. Regulations affecting 10 stages of a business's life are measured: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, employing workers, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and closing a business. Data in 'Doing Business 2010' are current as of June 1, 2009. The indicators are used to analyze economic outcomes and identify what reforms have worked, where and why.

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• World Bank
• Private sector development

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• Publié par: world-bank-publications
• Publié le: 11 septembre 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 26
• EAN13: 9780821379615
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

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COMPARING REGULATION IN 183 ECONOMIESCOMPARING REGULATION IN 183 ECONOMIES
A COPUBLICATION OF PALGRAVE MACMILLAN,
IFC AND THE WORLD BANK© 2009 The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank
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Additional copies of Doing Business 2010: Reforming through Difcult Times, Doing Business 2009, Doing Business 2008,
Doing Business 2007: How to Reform, Doing Business in 2006: Creating Jobs, Doing Business in 2005: Removing Obstacles
to Growth and Doing Business in 2004: Understanding Regulations may be purchased at www.doingbusiness.org.
ISBN: 978-0-8213-7961-5
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DOI: 10.1596/978-0-8213-7961-5
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Printed in the United StatesContents
Doing Business 2010 is the seventh in a tors, paying taxes, trading across bor- About Doing Business v
series of annual reports investigating the ders, enforcing contracts and closing a Overview 1
regulations that enhance business activity business. Data in Doing Business 2010 are Starting a business 10
and those that constrain it. Doing Busi- current as of June 1, 2009. Te indicators
Dealing with construction permits 17
ness presents quantitative indicators on are used to analyze economic outcomes
Employing workers 22business regulations and the protection and identify what reforms have worked,
Registering property 27of property rights that can be compared where and why.
Getting credit 33across 183 economies—from Afghanistan Te methodology for the employ-
to Zimbabwe—and over time. ing workers indicators changed for Doing Protecting investors 38
Regulations afecting 10 stages of Business 2010. See Data notes for details. Paying taxes 43
the life of a business are measured: start- Research is ongoing in 2 new areas: get- Trading across borders 49
ing a business, dealing with construction ting electricity and worker protection. Enforcing contracts 55
permits, employing workers, registering Initial results are presented in this report.
Closing a business 60
property, getting credit, protecting inves-
Annex: pilot indicators
on getting electricity 65
Annex: worker protection 70
THE DOING BUSINESS WEBSITE studies and customized country and regional References 73
profles Current features Data notes 77
http://www.doingbusiness.org/downloads News on the Doing Business project
Ease of doing business 97http://www.doingbusiness.org Subnational and regional projects
Country tables 102Diferences in business regulations at the Rankings
subnational and regional level How economies rank—from 1 to 183
http://www.doingbusiness.org/subnational http://www.doingbusiness.org/
Acknowledgments 164economyrankings Law library
Online collection of laws and regulations Reformers
relating to business and gender issues Short summaries of DB2010 reforms, lists
http://www.doingbusiness.org/lawlibraryof reformers since DB2004 and a ranking
http://www.org/simulation tool
genderlawlibrary http://www.doingbusiness.org/reformers
Local partners Historical data
More than 8,000 specialists in 183 economies Customized data sets since DB2004
who participate in Doing Business http://www.doingbusiness.org/customquery
http://www.doingbusiness.org/LocalPartners
Methodology and research
Reformers’ Club The methodology and research papers
Celebrating the top 10 Doing Business underlying Doing Business
reformers http://www.doingbusiness.org/
http://www.reformersclub.org MethodologySurveys
Business Planet Download reports
Interactive map on the ease of doing business Access to Doing Business reports as well as
http://www.doingbusiness.org/mapsubnational and regional reports, reform case STARTING A BUSINESS v
in redeploying resources, make it easier small and medium-size enterprises. About Doing
to stop doing things for which demand A fundamental premise of Doing
has weakened and to start doing new Business is that economic activity re -Business
things. Clarifcation of property rights quires good rules. Tese include rules
and strengthening of market infrastruc- that establish and clarify property rights
ture (such as credit information and and reduce the costs of resolving disputes,
collateral systems) can contribute to con- rules that increase the predictability of
fdence as investors and entrepreneurs economic interactions and rules that
look to rebuild. provide contractual partners with core
Until very recently, however, there protections against abuse. Te objective:
were no globally available indicator sets regulations designed to be efcient, to be
for monitoring such microeconomic fac- accessible to all who need to use them
tors and analyzing their relevance. Te and to be simple in their implementa-
frst eforts, in the 1980s, drew on per- tion. Accordingly, some Doing Business
ceptions data from expert or business indicators give a higher score for more
surveys. Such surveys are useful gauges regulation, such as stricter disclosure re-
In 1664 William Petty, an adviser to of economic and policy conditions. But quirements in related-party transactions.
England’s Charles II, compiled the frst their reliance on perceptions and their Some give a higher score for a simplifed
known national accounts. He made 4 incomplete coverage of poor countries way of implementing existing regulation,
entries. On the expense side, “food, hous- constrain their usefulness for analysis. such as completing business start-up
ing, clothes and all other necessaries” Te Doing Business project, launched formalities in a one-stop shop.
were estimated at 40 million. National 8 years ago, goes one step further. It looks Te Doing Business project encom-
income was split among 3 sources: 8 at domestic small and medium-size com- passes 2 types of data. Te frst come
million from land, 7 million from other panies and measures the regulations ap- from readings of laws and regulations.
personal estates and 25 million from plying to them through their life cycle. Te second are time and motion indi-
labor income. Doing Business and the standard cost cators that measure the efciency in
In later centuries estimates of coun- model initially developed and applied in achieving a regulatory goal (such as
try income, expenditure and material the Netherlands are, for the present, the granting the legal identity of a business).
inputs and outputs became more abun- only standard tools used across a broad Within the time and motion indicators,
dant. But it was not until the 1940s that range of jurisdictions to measure the cost estimates are recorded from ofcial
a systematic framework was developed impact of government rule-making on fee schedules where applicable. Here,
1for measuring national income and ex- business activity. Doing Business builds on Hernando de
penditure, under the direction of British Te frst Doing Business report, pub- Soto’s pioneering work in applying the
economist John Maynard Keynes. As the lished in 2003, covered 5 indicator sets in time and motion approach frst used
methodology became an international 133 economies. Tis year’s report covers by Frederick Taylor to revolutionize the
standard, comparisons of countries’ f- 10 indicator sets in 183 economies. Te production of the Model T Ford. De Soto
nancial positions became possible. Today proje