This economy profile presents the DoingBusiness indicators for West Bank and Gaza. To allow usefulcomparison, it also provides data for other selectedeconomies (comparator economies) for each indicator. DoingBusiness 2017 is the 14th in a series of annual reportsinvestigating the regulations that enhance business activityand those that constrain it. Economies are ranked on theirease of doing business; for 2016 West Bank and Gaza ranks140. Doing Business sheds light on how easy or difficult itis for a local entrepreneur to open and run a small tomedium-size business when complying with relevantregulations. It measures and tracks changes in regulationsaffecting 11 areas in the life cycle of a business: startinga business, dealing with construction permits, gettingelectricity, registering property, getting credit,protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading acrossborders, enforcing contracts, resolving insolvency and labormarket regulation. Doing Business 2017 presents the data forthe labor market regulation indicators in an annex. Thereport does not present rankings of economies on labormarket regulation indicators or include the topic in theaggregate distance to frontier score or ranking on the easeof doing business.The indicators are used to analyzeeconomic outcomes and identify what reforms have worked,where and why. The data in this report are current as ofJune 1, 2016 (except for the paying taxes indicators, whichcover the period January–December 2015).
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