Hanoi ho chi minh city contents executive summary 07 04 08 18 22 50 52 54 58 60 63 foreword 1. Doing business takes the perspective of domestic, primarily smaller companies and measures the regulations applying to them through their life cycle. Ranking of economies was introduced in the doing business 2006 report. The world banks doing business report, an influential survey of the operating environment for companies in nearly 200 countries, doesnt. The report updates all indicators as of june 1, 2017, ranks economies on their overall ease of doing business, and analyzes reforms to business regulation identifying which economies are strengthening their business environment the most. New zealand has topped the ease of doing business rankings in 2018, 2019 and 2020. Sql server 2016, windows server 2016, and system center 2016 as well as azure stack enable customers to build a cloud platform that spans their own data centers and the public cloud. Doing business 2015 going beyond efficiency comparing business regulations for domestic firms in 189 economies a world bank group flagship report 12th edition. Effective january 1, 2015, the bahamas introduced a 7.
Vietnam started 2018 with high expectations, as the asian development outlook report forecasts vietnams economy to expand by 7. Doing business in france economic environment france is considered to have a welldeveloped economy and has one of the highest hdi human development index in the world. A primer on doing business in the bahamas kpmg bahamas. Unless otherwise noted, the data in this report covers our global operations.
Transparency internationals 2015 corruption perception index ranked guinea as 9th of 167 countries and territories listed. Between june 2014 and june 2015, the report, which measures 189 economies worldwide, documented 231 business reforms. The internet has not changed the basic recipe for development. This economy profile for doing business 2016 presents the 11 doing business indicators for south africa. Costs of doing business in ireland 2016 competitiveness. Paraguay 04 types of companies 09 taxes 16 labor legislation in paraguay 34. The rank of malawi improved to 109 in 2019 from 111 in 2018. The objective of the doing business report is to encourage regulations that. Doing business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 190 economiesfrom afghanistan to zimbabweand over time. Doing business in uganda market overview all figures in this report are the most recently available. In brief, by its very nature doing business has all the ingredients of being both important and controversial, and it has lived up to both qualities in ample measure. According to the uganda ureau of statistics, ugandas gross domestic product gdp was usd. Measuring regulatory quality and efficiency finds that entrepreneurs in 122 economies saw improvements in their local regulatory framework last year. The academic research for the report was done jointly with professors oliver hart and andrei shleifer.
Doing business in the philippines bucking the global slowdown, building for the future april 2019. The ease of doing business index is an index created jointly by simeon djankov and gerhard pohl, two leading economists at the central and eastern europe sector of the world bank group. Data in doing business 2016 are current as of june 1, 2015. Each year countries try to move up in the rankings in relation to their neighbors while improving the business climate for firms who do business within their territory. In the 2018 report the top ten countries in the overall rankings are new. Doing business 2015 open knowledge repository world bank. Ibm did not employ an external agency or organization to audit the 2016 corporate responsibility report. Malawi is ranked 109 among 190 economies in the ease of doing business, according to the latest world bank annual ratings. Among reforms to reduce the complexity and cost of. Access to doing business reports as well as subnational and regional. This publication presents selected content from doing business 2016. Be that as it may, nigeriaos db 2016 ranking is based on regulatory processes, procedures and practices at state level, in this case, lagos and kano. Why doing business with the world bank may be bad for you.
The most recent rankings come from the doing business 2020 report. The rankings are determined by sorting the aggregate scores formerly called distance to frontier on 10 topics, each consisting of several indicators. Guide to doing business and investing in macedonia. Ease of doing business in malawi 20082019 data 2020. Doing business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 189. Higher rankings a low numerical value indicate better, usually simpler, regulations for businesses and. July 2016 and were based on the law enforceable and information available at the time. The national competitiveness council reports to the taoiseach and the government, through the minister for jobs, enterprise and innovation on key competitiveness issues facing the irish economy and offers. Doing business 2020, a world bank group flagship publication, is the 17th in a series of annual studies measuring the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. A positive change indicates an improvement in the score between 201617 and 201718. Apr 21, 2016 the costs of doing business in ireland 2016 report benchmarks the main costs facing enterprises, across over 50 indicators.
Singapore topped the ease of doing business rankings in 20072016. Bank doing business ranking to increase japans international competitiveness. Competitive alternatives 2016, the latest edition of this biennial kpmg series, compares business costs in more than 100 cities in 10 countries, including australia, canada, france, germany, italy, japan, mexico, the netherlands, the united kingdom and the united states. Access to doing business reports as well as subnational and regional reports, re form case studies and. In this changing environment, this guide to doing business and. Using this report the 2016 annual report begins with a message from the wto directorgeneral and an overview of the past year. On november 10, 2015, the wbg geneva office hosted the presentation of this years doing business report, which focused on the topic of measuring regulatory quality and efficiency. In some cases, data was available for 2015, but not yet 2014.
Aug 04, 2015 the world banks doing business report, an influential survey of the operating environment for companies in nearly 200 countries, doesnt accurately reflect the experience of companies. The tourist sector is, as a consequence, an important. The full report can be downloaded from the doing business website at. Prior to the 1952 revolution, egypt was a constitutional monarchy. To help american companies understand market conditions, every year we publish the country commercial guide for ukraine. To allow for useful comparison, the profile also provides data for other selected economies comparator economies for each indicator. The rankings are benchmarked to june 2016 and based on the average of each economys distance to frontier dtf scores for the. It focuses on areas where irish costs are out of line with those in key competitor countries and concentrates on costs that are largely domestically determined. Doing business in the philippines bucking the global. This page includes a chart with historical data for ease of doing. The doing business project provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 190 economies.
The indicators are used to analyze economic outcomes and identify what reforms of business regulation have worked, where and why. Measuring regulatory quality and efficiency, mexico. For more details on the data and methodology, please see the data notes chapter starting on page 119 of the. The kpi states japan will be one of the top three countries currently 15th in the business environment ranking for the developed 4countries reported by the world bank in doing business report by 2020. Doing business 2016 is the th publication in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 189 economies. Vietnamese commercial relationship has grown since the united states lifted its trade embargo against vietnam in 1994 and the two countries renewed diplomatic relations in 1995. The share is the percentage of respondents selecting the risk among the five of highest concern. Information about our business and financial performance is provided in our 2016 annual report. Doing business in paraguay 12 two or more persons individuals or legal entities may establish a partnership in the form of a limited liability company, through a social contract that should extend by public deed.
For more details on the distance to frontier metric, please see the distance to frontier and ease of doing business ranking chapter in this profile. Since 2009, women, business and the law has collected data about legal restrictions on womens entrepreneurship and employment in order to inform policy discussions and promote research on the linkages between the law and womens economic opportunities. Women business and the law 2016 for website world bank. Global risks of highest concern for doing business 2016. This report describes how the online platform model for commerce, which significantly reduces the costs of doing business over distance, has allowed enterprisesno matter what sizeto extend their reach from their locality or region to an unprecedented geographical area. Doing business in the philippines economic overview doing business in the philippines economic overview. Main characteristics of jsc, llc, branch and liaison 3. Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business, from 1190. This is followed by more indepth accounts of the wtos areas of activity over the past 12 months.
Is the world banks doing business report at odds with. From the list of global risks above, respondents were asked to select the five global risks that they were most concerned about for doing business in their country within the next 10 years. Is the world banks doing business report at odds with how. The commodity boom may be over, and barriers to doing business are everywhere. Forms of doing business in vietnam introduction since vietnam first opened its doors to foreign direct investment in the late 1980s, the primary way to establish a longterm corporate presence in vietnam had been to set up a foreign invested company fic under the law on foreign investment.
Measuring regulatory quality and efficiency, a world bank group flagship publication, is the th in a series of annual reports measuring the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. The costs of doing business in ireland 2016 report benchmarks the main costs facing enterprises, across over 50 indicators. A world bank group flagship report th edition doing. For more details on the distance to frontier metric, please see the distance to frontier and ease. The 2016 doing business report at p v acknowledges the possibility of gaming. Doing business illustrates how reforms in business regulations are being used to analyze economic. Its history, its culture and the diversity of its landscapes attract over 75 million tourists per year. Understanding ukraines business climate is the first step to exporting. Guide to doing business and investing in macedonia 5 7abour relations l 34. Wdr 2016 team, doing business, world economic forum.
The doing business report provides objective measures of business regulations for local firms in 189 economies. There is no unique way of doing this, and there are plenty of open conceptual questions one has to contend with. As of 2016, the world bank ranked guinea 165th out of 189 countries worldwide in its annual ease of doing business index. The boj introduced a negative interest rate on bank reserves in february 2016, hoping to bring down the yield curve even more. Indeed, in 2016, nigeria is ranked 169 out of 189 economies in the world bank doing business db report. Forms of doing business in vietnam 2016 baker mckenzie.
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