Doing Business Regional Profile 2017 : Southern African Development Community
This economy profile presents the Doing Business indicators for Southern African Development Community (SADC). To allow useful comparison, it also provides data for other selected economies (comparator economies) for each indicator. Doing Business...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/800961478860335920/Doing-business-regional-profile-Southern-African-Development-Community-SADC http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25671 |
| Summary: | This economy profile presents the Doing
Business indicators for Southern African Development
Community (SADC). To allow useful comparison, it also
provides data for other selected economies (comparator
economies) for each indicator. Doing Business sheds light on
how easy or difficult it is for a local entrepreneur to open
and run a small to medium-size business when complying with
relevant regulations. It measures and tracks changes in
regulations affecting 11 areas in the life cycle of a
business: 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,
and labor market regulation. Doing Business 2017 presents
the data for the labor market regulation indicators in an
annex. In a series of annual reports Doing Business presents
quantitative indicators on business regulations and the
protection of property rights that can be compared across
190 economies, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, over time. The
data set covers 48 economies in Sub-Saharan Africa, 32 in
Latin America and the Caribbean, 25 in East Asia and the
Pacific, 25 in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, 20 in the
Middle East and North Africa, and 8 in South Asia, as well
as 32 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD) high-income economies. The indicators are used to
analyze economic outcomes and identify what reforms have
worked, where, and why. The data in this report are current
as of June 1, 2016 (except for the paying taxes indicators,
which cover the period January-December 2015). |
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