Doing Business 2009

Description

The Doing Business series provides research, data, and analysis on regulation
in 181 economies across 10 areas of the business life cycle. Doing Business
2009 identifies top reformers in business regulation and highlights best
practices and global reform trends. This year's report builds upon the five
previous editions, adding new economies and updating all indicators.
This year's report covers 3 additional economies,
bringing the total number of economies
covered to 181. Now included are the Bahamas,
Bahrain, and Qatar. The report also adds a
preface on Doing Business methodology, as
well as in-depth analysis throughout the report
on the main trends and findings of the past six
years of Doing Business.
Doing Business is an invaluable resource for
entrepreneurs, investors, advisors, academics,
professionals, and policymakers. The indicators
benchmark regulation across 10 areas of
a typical business lifecycle, and are used
to analyze economic and social outcomes
that matter such as equal opportunity,
unemployment, poverty, and growth. This
annually-published report gives policymakers
the ability to measure regulatory performance
in comparison to other economies, and learn
from best practices.

Sujets

• World Bank
• Industry
• Private sector development

Informations

• Publié par: world-bank-publications
• Publié le: 10 septembre 2008
• Nombre de lectures: 19
• EAN13: 9780821376096
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

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ISBN: 978-0-8213-7609-6
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DOI: 10.1596/978-0-8213-7609-6
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data has been applied for.Contents
Doing Business 2009 is the sixth in a property, getting credit, protecting inves- About Doing Business v
series of annual reports investigating tors, paying taxes, trading across bor- Overview 1
the regulations that enhance business ders, enforcing contracts and closing a Starting a business 9
activity and those that constrain it. Doing business. Data in Doing Business 2009 are Dealing with construction permits 14
Business presents quantitative indicators current as of June 1, 2008. Te indicators
Employing workers 19
on business regulations and the protec- are used to analyze economic outcomes
Registering property 24tion of property rights that can be com- and identify what reforms have worked,
Getting credit 29pared across 181 economies—from Af- where and why.
Protecting investors 34ghanistan to Zimbabwe—and over time. Te methodology for the legal rights
Regulations afecting 10 stages of of lenders and borrowers, part of the get- Paying taxes 39
the life of a business are measured: start- ting credit indicators, changed for Doing Trading across borders 44
ing a business, dealing with construction Business 2009. See Data notes for details. Enforcing contracts 49
permits, employing workers, registering Closing a business 54

Downloads Current features References 58Doing Business reports as well as subnational, News on the Doing Business project
country and regional reports and case studies Data notes 61http://www.doingbusiness.org
http://www.doingbusiness.org/downloads Ease of doing business 79Rankings
Subnational projects How economies rank—from 1 to 181 Country tables 85
Diferences in business regulations at the http://www.doingbusiness.org/
ILO core labor standards 147subnational level economyrankings
http://www.doingbusiness.org/subnational
Reformers
Law library Short summaries of DB2009 reforms, lists
Online collection of business laws and 151of reformers since DB2004 and a ranking Acknowledgments
regulations simulation tool
http://www.doingbusiness.org/lawlibrary http://www.doingbusiness.org/reformers
Local partners Data time series
More than 6,700 specialists in 181 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 methodologies and research papers
Celebrating the top 10 Doing Business underlying Doing Business
reformers http://www.doingbusiness.org/
http://www.reformersclub.org MethodologySurveys
Business Planet Blog
Interactive map on the ease of doing business Online journal focusing on business
http://www.doingbusiness.org/mapregulation reform
http://blog.doingbusiness.org STARTING A BUSINESS v
surveys. Such surveys are useful gauges regulation, such as stricter disclosure re-About Doing
of economic and policy conditions. But quirements in related-party transactions.
their reliance on perceptions and their Some give a higher score for a simplifed Business
incomplete coverage of poor countries way of implementing existing regulation,
limit their usefulness for analysis. such as completing business start-up
Te Doing Business project, launched formalities in a one-stop shop.
7 years ago, goes one step further. It looks Te Doing Business project encom-
at domestic small and medium-size com- passes 2 types of data. Te frst come
panies and measures the regulations ap- from readings of laws and regulations.
plying to them through their life cycle. Te second are time and motion indi-
Doing Business and the standard cost cators that measure the efciency in
model initially developed and applied in achieving a regulatory goal (such as
the Netherlands are, for the present, the granting the legal identity of a business).
only standard tools used across a broad Within the time and motion indicators,
range of jurisdictions to measure the cost estimates are recorded from ofcial
impact of government rule-making on fee schedules where applicable. Here,
1In 1664 William Petty, an adviser to business activity. Doing Business builds on Hernando de
England’s Charles II, compiled the frst Te frst Doing Business report, pub- Soto’s pioneering work in applying the
known national accounts. He made 4 lished in 2003, covered 5 indicator sets in time and motion approach frst used
entries. On the expense side, “food, hous- 133 economies. Tis year’s report covers by Frederick Taylor to revolutionize the
ing, clothes and all other necessaries” 10 indicator sets in 181 economies. Te production of the Model T Ford. De Soto
were estimated at £40 million. National project has benefted from feedback from used the approach in the 1980s to show
income was split among 3 sources: £8 governments, academics, practitioners the obstacles to setting up a garment fac-
2 3million from land, £7 million from other and reviewers. Te initial goal remains: tory on the outskirts of Lima.
personal estates and £25 million from to provide an objective basis for under-
labor income. standing and improving the regulatory What Doing Business
In later centuries estimates of coun- environment for business. does tno overc
try income, expenditure and material
inputs and outputs became more abun- What Doing Business ocvers Just as important as knowing what Doing
dant. But it was not until the 1940s that Business does is to know what it does
a systematic framework was developed Doing Business provides a quantitative not do—to understand what limitations
for measuring national income and ex- measure of regulations for starting a must be kept in mind in interpreting
penditure, under the direction of British business, dealing with construction the data.
economist John Maynard Keynes. As the permits, employing workers, register-
Limited in scopemethodology became an international ing property, getting credit, protecting
standard, comparisons of countries’ f- investors, paying taxes, trading across Doing Business focuses on 10 topics, with
nancial positions became possible. Today bord ers, enforcing contracts and closing the specifc aim of measuring the regula-
the macroeconomic indicators in na- a business—as they apply to domestic tion and red tape relevant to the life cycle
tional accounts are standard in every small and medium-size enterprises. of a domestic small to medium-size frm.
country. A fundamental premise of Doing Accordingly:
Governments committed to the eco- Business is that economic activity re - • Doing Business does not measure all
nomic health of their country and op- quires good rules. Tese include rules aspects of the business environment
portunities for its citizens now focus on that establish and clarify property rights that matter to frms or investors—or
more than macroeconomic conditions. and reduce the costs of resolving disputes, all factors that afect competitiveness.
Tey also pay attention to the laws, regu- rules that increase the predictability of It does not, for example, measure
lations and institutional arrangements economic interactions and rules that security, macroeconomic stability,
that shape daily economic activity. provide contractual partners with core corruption, the labor skills of the
Until very recently, however, there protections against abuse. Te objective: population,