This economy profile for Doing Business2015 presents the 11 Doing Business indicators for NewZealand. To allow for useful comparison, the profile alsoprovides data for other selected economies (comparatoreconomies) for each indicator. Doing Business 2015 is the12th edition in a series of annual reports measuring theregulations that enhance business activity and those thatconstrain it. Economies are ranked on their ease of doingbusiness; for 2015 New Zealand ranks 2. A high ease of doingbusiness ranking means the regulatory environment is moreconducive to the starting and operation of a local firm.Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on businessregulations and the protection of property rights that canbe compared across 189 economies from Afghanistan toZimbabwe and over time. Doing Business measures regulationsaffecting 11 areas of the life of a business known asindicators. Ten of these areas are included in thisyear's ranking on the ease of doing business: startinga business, dealing with construction permits, gettingelectricity, registering property, getting credit,protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading acrossborders, enforcing contracts, and resolving insolvency.Doing Business also measures labor market regulation, whichis not included in this year's ranking. The data inthis report are current as of June 1, 2014 (except for thepaying taxes indicators, which cover the period from Januaryto December 2013).