Doing Business sheds light on how easyor difficult it is for a local entrepreneur to open and runa small to medium-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 2016 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. This regional profile presents the DoingBusiness indicators for economies in Organization for theHarmonization of Business Law in Africa (OHADA). It alsoshows the regional average, the best performance globallyfor each indicator and data for the following comparatorregions: Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa(COMESA), East Asia and the Pacific (EAP), European Union(EU), Latin America and Southern African DevelopmentCommunity (SADC).. The data in this report are current as ofJune 1, 2015 (except for the paying taxes indicators, whichcover the period January–December 2014).