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 economyprofile presents the doing business indicators for EasternEurope and Central Asia (ECA). To allow useful comparison,it also provides data for other selected economies(comparator economies) for each indicator. The data in thisreport are current as of June 1, 2011 (except for the payingtaxes indicators, which cover the period January-December 2010).