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Doing Business 2017: Ethiopia Summary

Core Content

Doing Business 2017 is a World Bank Group flagship report that evaluates the ease of doing business across 190 economies. It measures regulations in 11 key areas of the business life cycle, including starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, resolving insolvency, and labor market regulation. The report provides a comparative analysis of regulatory environments and helps identify reforms that improve business conditions.

Key Indicators and Performance for Ethiopia

Main Points and Key Information

1. Business Environment Overview

• Ethiopia is ranked 159th in the Ease of Doing Business ranking and has a Distance to Frontier (DTF) score of 47.25, showing that it is still far from the best regulatory practices.
• The report highlights the importance of the DTF score and Ease of Doing Business ranking in understanding the business environment. The DTF score indicates the absolute distance from the best performance, while the ranking shows how an economy compares to others.

2. Key Regulatory Challenges

• Starting a business in Ethiopia requires 14 procedures and takes 35 days, with a cost of 69.3% of income per capita.
• Dealing with construction permits involves 12 procedures, taking 130 days and costing 18.7% of warehouse value.
• Getting electricity requires 4 procedures, taking 95 days and costing 1238.8% of income per capita.
• Registering property requires 7 procedures, taking 52 days and costing 6.1% of property value.
• Getting credit is highly challenging, with a DTF score of 15.00 and a rank of 170.
• Protecting minority investors is also difficult, with a DTF score of 31.67 and a rank of 175.
• Paying taxes is a significant burden, with 30 payments per year and 306 hours of compliance annually.
• Trading across borders is a major challenge, with a DTF score of 42.39 and a rank of 167.
• Enforcing contracts involves a long process, taking 530 days on average, with a cost of 15.2% of claims.
• Resolving insolvency is slow and costly, with a recovery rate of 29.2 cents per dollar and a DTF score of 37.60.

3. Gender Component

• The report introduces a gender dimension in three indicators: starting a business, registering property, and enforcing contracts.
• The number of procedures and time required for both men and women are similar, but the cost is the same for both.
• The gender-specific requirements for opening a bank account and obtaining consent from a husband are highlighted as additional burdens for women.

4. Methodological Updates

• The paying taxes indicator now includes postfiling processes such as tax refunds, audits, and appeals.
• Somalia is included for the first time, expanding the total number of economies to 190.
• The report provides data for comparator economies to facilitate useful comparisons.

5. Regional and Global Context

• Ethiopia is ranked lower than many of its regional comparator economies, such as Egypt (Rank 39) and Kenya (Rank 116).
• The best performers globally include New Zealand, Korea, Rep., and Singapore.
• The report provides a comparative analysis of Ethiopia's performance against other economies in the region and globally.

Conclusion

• The Doing Business 2017 report shows that Ethiopia's business environment remains challenging, with significant regulatory barriers across all key areas.
• While the DTF score and rank provide a useful framework for assessing the business environment, the report emphasizes the need for targeted reforms to improve the ease of doing business.
• The inclusion of gender components and new indicators enhances the report's relevance and applicability to a broader range of stakeholders.