Doing Business in Pakistan 2010

Doing Business in Pakistan 2010 is the first country-specific subnational report of the Doing Business series in Pakistan. The report builds on the regional Doing Business in South Asia 2005-7 series, which created quantitative indicators on business regulations for 6 Pakistani cities. Doing Busines...

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Main Authors:	World Bank, International Finance Corporation
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:	ACCESS POINT access points access to credit access to the Internet account accounting accounts administrative burdens administrative costs Advisory Services approval process approval processes bankruptcy Banks barriers to entry best practices bribe bribes business activity business associations business centers business environment business indicator Business indicators business registration business regulation business regulations business startup business surveys Business values businesses capital flows capital requirement certificate certificates chamber of commerce chambers of commerce collateral commercial legislation commercial transactions competitiveness consumer goods Copyright corruption cost estimates credit information debt digital signature digital signatures disclosure requirements e-Government E-mail e-Services e-Services portal economic activity economic crisis economic development economic opportunities Economic Reform economic reforms economies of scale electricity electronic data electronic signatures Employee employment opportunities Enterprise Survey Enterprise Surveys entrepreneur Entrepreneurial Activity entrepreneurs equal rights eServices Exchange Commission exchange rate expenditure external shocks Facilitation financial system fixed assets foreign investment formal economy formal workforce fraud gender Global Competitiveness good practices Government offices government revenue ICT identification number immovable property income tax industrial plants informal economy inspection inspections Institution institutional capacity International Bank INTERNATIONAL FINANCE international standard International Telecommunication job creation legal framework License licenses loan loan approval loan approval rates material Medium Enterprises networks new business New Businesses new company Obstacles to Growth one-stop shop online business online payment online registration online registrations online services opportunities for entrepreneurship performances phone connections private sector privatization productivity property rights property tax property taxes quality assurance queries recession red tape registration systems regulatory environment regulatory framework regulatory frameworks regulatory systems remittances result results safety nets sales search Securities selling sites small enterprises social security social services start-up start-up costs substitutes tax burden technical skills Telecommunication Telephone telephone connection telephone line telephone lines telephone services time frame transaction unemployment Union urban area urban areas USER uses verification verifications Vulnerable groups warehouse web web portal
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13435

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Summary:	Doing Business in Pakistan 2010 is the first country-specific subnational report of the Doing Business series in Pakistan. The report builds on the regional Doing Business in South Asia 2005-7 series, which created quantitative indicators on business regulations for 6 Pakistani cities. Doing Business in Pakistan 2010 documents progress in the previously measured cities and extends the analysis to a total of 13 cities. Comparisons with Karachi and the rest of the world are based on the indicators in Doing Business in 2010: reforming through difficult times, the seventh in a series of annual reports published by the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation. The indicators in Doing Business in Pakistan 2010 are also comparable with the data in other subnational Doing Business reports. Doing Business investigates the ways in which government regulations enhance or restrain business activity. The cities covered in Doing Business in Pakistan 2010 were selected jointly with Pakistan's Ministry of Finance and are the following: Faisalabad (Punjab), Gujranwala (Punjab), Hyderabad (Sindh), Islamabad (Islamabad Capital Territory, or ICT), Karachi (Sindh), Lahore (Punjab), Multan (Punjab), Peshawar (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Quetta (Balochistan), Rawalpindi (Punjab), Sheikhupura (Punjab), Sialkot (Punjab), and Sukkur (Sindh). Regulations affecting six stages of the life of a business are measured at the subnational level in Pakistan: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, registering property, enforcing contracts, trading across borders, and paying taxes. These indicators have been selected because they cover areas of local jurisdiction or practice. The data in Doing Business in Pakistan 2010 are current as of December 2009.

Doing Business in Pakistan 2010

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