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 Coted'Ivoire. To allow useful comparison, it also providesdata for other selected economies (comparator economies) foreach indicator. The data in this report are current as ofJune 1, 2011 (except for the paying taxes indicators, whichcover the period January- December 2010). The data not onlyhighlight the extent of obstacles to doing business; theyalso help identify the source of those obstacles, supportingpolicy makers in designing regulatory reform.