Doing Business 2017

Equal Opportunity for All

World Bank Group

• Publisher: World Bank
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781464809484
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business Law
• Index: Business

Fourteenth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2017 measures aspects of regulation affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity: • Starting a business • Dealing with construction permits • Getting electricity • Registering property • Getting credit • Protecting minority investors • Paying taxes • Trading across borders • Enforcing contracts • Resolving insolvency. These areas are included in the distance to frontier score and ease of doing business ranking. Doing Business also measures features of labor market regulation, which is not included in these two measures. This year's report introduces major improvements by expanding the paying taxes indicators to cover postfiling processes—tax audits, tax refunds and tax appeals—and presents analysis of pilot data on selling to the government which measures public procurement regulations. Also for the first time this year Doing Business collects data on Somalia. Using the data originally developed by Women, Business and the Law, this year for the first time Doing Business adds a gender component to three indicators—starting a business, registering property, and enforcing contracts—and finds that those economies which limit women's access in these areas have fewer women working in the private sector both as employers and employees.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Overview
• About Doing Business
• Reforming the Business Environment in 2015/16
• Case studies
• Getting Electricity Factors affecting the reliability of electricity supply
• Getting Credit: Legal Rights Two approaches to developing an integrated secured transactions regime
• Getting Credit: Credit Information Casting a wide net to expand financial inclusion
• Protecting Minority Investors Achieving sound corporate governance
• Paying Taxes Assessing postfiling processes
• Trading Across Borders Technology gains in trade facilitation
• Annex: Labor Market Regulation What can we learn from Doing Business data?
• Annex: Selling to the Government Why public procurement matters
• References
• Data Notes
• Distance to Frontier and Ease of Doing Business Ranking
• Summaries of Doing Business Reforms in 2015/16
• Country Tables
• Labor Market Regulation Data
• Acknowledgments