Doing Business 2014 Regional Profile : East Asia and the Pacific

World Bank ; International Finance Corporation

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: ACCESS TO SERVICES;    ACCOUNTING;    ACCOUNTING METHODS;    ACCOUNTS;    ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLES;   

RP-ID  :  83403

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This regional profile presents the DoingBusiness indicators for economies in East Asia and thePacific (EAP). It also shows the regional average, the bestperformance globally for each indicator and data for thefollowing comparator regions: Europe and Central Asia,European Union, Latin America, South Asia, and OECD HighIncome. The data in this report are current as of June 1,2013, except for the paying taxes indicators, which coverthe period January to December 2012. Regional Doing Businessreports capture differences in business regulations andtheir enforcement across countries in a single region. Theyprovide data on the ease of doing business, rank eachlocation, and recommend reforms to improve performance ineach of the indicator areas. The report sheds light on howeasy or difficult it is for a local entrepreneur to open andrun a small to medium-size business when complying withrelevant regulations. It measures and tracks changes inregulations affecting 11 areas in the life cycle of abusiness: starting a business, dealing with constructionpermits, getting electricity, registering property, gettingcredit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading acrossborders, enforcing contracts, resolving insolvency andemploying workers. Doing Business presents quantitativeindicators on business regulations and the protection ofproperty rights that can be compared across 189 economies,from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, over time. The data set covers47 economies in Sub-Saharan Africa, 33 in Latin America andthe Caribbean, 25 in East Asia and the Pacific, 25 inEastern Europe and Central Asia, 20 in the Middle East andNorth Africa and 8 in South Asia, as well as 31 OECDhigh-income economies. The indicators are used to analyzeeconomic outcomes and identify what reforms have worked,where and why.