Doing Business 2011

The World Bank

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Eighth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulations in 183 economies, Doing Business 2011 measures regulations affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity:
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.
The report updates all 10 sets of indicators, ranks countries on their overall ease of doing business and analyzes reforms to business regulation- identifying which countries are improving strengthening their business environment the most and which ones slipped. Doing Business 2011 includes results on the ongoing research in the area of "getting electricity" and illustrates how reforms in business regulations can translate into better outcomes for domestic entrepreneurs and the wider economy. It also focuses on how women in particular are affected by complex business regulations.

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• World Bank
• Private sector
• Private sector development

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• Publié par: world-bank-publications
• Publié le: 03 novembre 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 27
• EAN13: 9780821379608
• Langue: English
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Quick response to crisis Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Some economies showed a quick response to the crisis. Faced by Eastern Europe and Central Asia was the most active in making it
Global highlights rising numbers of insolvencies and debt disputes, 16 economies, easier to do business in 2009/10, for the 7th year in a row. Results
mostly Eastern European and OECD high-income economies, reformed include one-stop shops for business start-up in 20 of its 25 − A new measure shows that business regulation worldwide is
their insolvency regimes. These include the Baltic states as well as economies. Business start-up is now as efficient as in OECD becoming more conducive to doing business. Over the past 5 years
Belgium, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Spain and the high-income economies. Five of the region’s economies rank among about 85% of economies have made it easier for local entrepreneurs
United Kingdom. the top 10 on the efficiency of property registration. Credit bureaus ICELANDto start and operate a business. FINLAND cover 30% of adults, up from 3% in 2004.NORWAY SWEDEN− Developing economies are increasingly active. In 2009/10, THE NETHERLANDS ESTONIA
66% reformed business regulation; 6 years before, only 34% did. RUSSIAN LATVIA RUSSIAN FEDERATIONCANADA DENMARK
− Between June 2009 and May 2010 governments in 117 POLAND UNITED FED. LITHUANIA
IRELAND GERMANY BELARUSCZECH REPUBLIC KINGDOM POLANDeconomies implemented 216 business regulation reforms making it
BELGIUMSLOVAK REPUBLICeasier to start and operate a business. UKRAINELUXEMBOURG KAZAKHSTANSWITZERLAND MOLDOVA− New technology is saving time and cost around the world. For AUSTRIA MONGOLIAHUNGARY FRANCE ROMANIAITALYexample, more than 100 economies use electronic systems for
SLOVENIA ROMANIA BULGARIA GEORGIAtraders. And 105 use information and communication technology for UZBEKISTANCROATIA AZER- KYRGYZ REP.SPAIN ARMENIAPORTUGALbusiness start-up. Singapore’s online system saves new firms an UNITED STATES BAIJANBOSNIA & TURKEYSERBIA TAJIKISTANHERZ. GREECEestimated $42 million a year. In Mauritius a computerized system cut SYRIAN REP.OF JAPANCYPRUS
CHINA KOREATUNISIA ARABthe time for all types of business registrations by 80%. KOSOVO LEBANON ISLAMIC REP. AFGHANISTANITALY BULG. IRAQMONTENEGRO REP.MOROCCO OF IRANISRAEL East Asia and the PacificFYR JORDAN PAKISTANMACEDONIA WEST BANK AND GAZA BHUTAN Economies in East Asia and the Pacific hit their stride. In 2006 ALBANIA KUWAITALGERIA NEPALBAHRAIN only a third of them made doing business easier. In 2009/10, 75% GREECE ARAB REP.THE BAHAMAS SAUDI QATAROF EGYPT did. Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam took the lead.ARABIA BANGLADESHUNITED ARAB INDIADOMINICAN REP. PUERTO RICO (U.S.)MEXICO EMIRATES LAO HONG KONG SAR, CHINAOMANJAMAICA HAITI MAURITANIAANTIGUA AND BARBUDA CAPE VERDE P.D.R.
BELIZE MALIDOMINICA NIGERST. KITTS AND NEVIS ERITREA REP. OFSENEGAL THAILAND VIETNAMGUATEMALA HONDURAS CHADST. LUCIAST. VINCENT AND YEMENTHE GAMBIA BURKINANICARAGUA SUDAN CAMBODIAEL SALVADOR PHILIPPINESTHE GRENADINES GRENADA MARSHALL IS.DJIBOUTIGUINEA-BISSAU GUINEA FASO BENINTRINIDAD AND TOBAGOPANAMA R.B. DE NIGERIA SRICOSTA RICA GHANACÔTE ETHIOPIAGUYANA CENTRALVENEZUELA SIERRA LEONE BRUNEILANKASURINAME D’IVOIRE AFRICAN REP. FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIALIBERIA CAMEROON MALAYSIA PALAUCOLOMBIA TOGO KIRIBATIMALDIVESEQUATORIAL GUINEA UGANDA
KENYA SINGAPOREGABONSÃO TOMÉ AND PRÍNCIPEECUADOR RWANDA South AsiaDEM. REP.KIRIBATI CONGO BURUNDIOF CONGO Between June 2009 and May 2010, 5 of 8 economies in South SOLOMONINDONESIA PAPUASub-Saharan Africa & Middle East and SEYCHELLES Asia reformed business regulation making use of technology. ISLANDSTANZANIA NEW GUINEANorth Africa India and Bangladesh, for example, expanded e-government services COMOROSPERU TIMOR-LESTEBRAZILSAMOA Trade was a big focus in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East for business start-up.
ANGOLAand North Africa. The 2 regions accounted for half of all trade MALAWI
ZAMBIAfacilitation reforms. VANUATU FIJI
BOLIVIALatin America and the CaribbeanFIJI MOZAMBIQUE MAURITIUSZIMBABWEEconomies in Latin America and the Caribbean focused on TONGA NAMIBIA MADAGASCAR
making it easier to trade across borders and register property in BOTSWANAPARAGUAY2009/10. Peru and Grenada, for example, made trading faster and AUSTRALIA
halved the time to transfer property. SWAZILAND
Top economiesSOUTH LESOTHO
Top economies make it easy for local entrepreneurs to do AFRICA
URUGUAY business through e-government initiatives and risk-based and CHILE
performance-based systems. Singapore tops the ranking on the ARGENTINA
ease of doing business for the 5th year in a row, followed this year NEW
by Hong Kong SAR (China), New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the ZEALANDHIGHLIGHTS FROM DOING BUSINESS 2011
United States, Denmark, Canada, Norway, Ireland and Australia.
Economies that improved the most in the ease of
doing business in 2009/10
Economies that made the largest absolute improvements
over the past 5 years
This map was produced by the
Kazakhstan and Rwanda improved the most in the ease of doing business in 2009/10 and made among the largest absolute improvements over the past 5 years. Map Design Unit of The World Bank.
The boundaries, colors, denominations
Source: Doing Business database and any other information shown on
this map do not imply, on the part of
The World Bank Group, any judgment
on the legal status of any territory, or
any endorsement or acceptance of
such boundaries.
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through Dif cult 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: 978-0-8213-7960-8
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DOI: 10.1596/978-0-8213-7960-8
ISSN: 1729-2638
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Printed in the United StatesContents
Doing Business 2011 is the eighth in a series of annual reports investigating the Preface v
regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business Executive summary 1
presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property About Doing Business:
rights that can be compared across 183 economies—from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe— measuring for impact 12
and over time.
Starting a business 18
Regulations af ecting 11 areas of the life of a business are covered: starting a business, Dealing with construction permits 26
dealing with construction permits, registering property, getting credit, protecting Registering property 32
investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, closing a busi- Getting credit 39
ness, getting electricity and employing workers. T e getting electricity and employing
Protecting investors 47workers data are not included in the ranking on the ease of doing business in Doing
Paying taxes 54Business 2011.
Trading across borders 63
Data in Doing Business 2011 are current as of June 1, 2010. T e indicators are used to
Enforcing contracts 70analyze economic outcomes and identify what reforms have worked, where and why.
Closing a business 77
T e methodology for the employing workers indicators changed for Doing Business
2011. See Data notes for details.
Annex: pilot indicators
on getting electricity 84
THE DOING BUSINESS WEBSITE Download reports Annex: employing workers 93
Access to Doing Business reports as well as
Current features
subnational and regional reports, reform case
News on the Doing Business project
studies and customized country and regional References 105
http://www.doingbusiness.org