Doing Business 2014 Regional Profile : Europe and Central Asia

World Bank ; International Finance Corporation

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: ACCESS TO SERVICES;    ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS;    AMOUNT OF CREDIT;    APPROVAL SYSTEM;    AUTHENTICATION;   

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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 Europe and Central Asia(ECA). It also shows the regional average, the bestperformance globally for each indicator and data for thefollowing comparator regions: European Union, Latin America,East Asia and the Pacific, Middle East and North Africa, andOECD High Income. The data in this report are current as ofJune 1, 2013, except for the paying taxes indicators, whichcover the period January to December 2012. Regional DoingBusiness reports capture differences in business regulationsand their enforcement across countries in a single region.They provide 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.