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 10 areas in the life cycle of a business: startinga business, dealing with construction permits, gettingelectricity, registering property, getting credit,protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders,enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency. In a series ofannual reports doing business presents quantitativeindicators on business regulations and the protection ofproperty rights that can be compared across 183 economies,from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, over time. This regionalprofile presents the doing business indicators for SouthernAfrican Development Community (SADC). To allow usefulcomparison, it also provides data for other selectedeconomies (comparator economies) for each indicator. Thedata in this report are current as of June 1, 2011 (exceptfor the paying taxes indicators, which cover the periodJanuary-December 2010).