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 Small Island States. Italso shows the regional average, the best performanceglobally for each indicator and data for the followingcomparator regions: Caribbean States, Common Market forEastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), East Asia and thePacific (EAP), Latin America and Southern AfricanDevelopment Community (SADC).. The data in this report arecurrent as of June 1, 2015 (except for the paying taxesindicators, which cover the period January–December 2014).