TY  - BOOK
TI  - Doing Business 2019 : : Training for Reform
T2  - Doing Business
SN  - 9781464813382
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - The World Bank
KW  - Annual Ranking
KW  - Business Indicators
KW  - Business Laws
KW  - Business Regulation
KW  - Distance To Frontier
KW  - Doing Business
KW  - Domestic Firms
KW  - Domestic SMEs
KW  - Ease Of Doing Business
KW  - Laws Impacting Business
KW  - Local Entrepreneurs
N2  - Sixteenth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2019 measures aspects of regulation affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity: - Starting a business - Dealing with construction permits - Getting electricity - Registering property - Getting credit - Protecting minority investors - Paying taxes - Trading across borders - Enforcing contracts - Resolving insolvencyThese areas are included in the distance to frontier score and ease of doing business ranking. Doing Business also measures features of labor market regulation, which is not included in these two measures. This edition also presents the findings of the pilot indicator entitled 'Contracting with the Government,' which aims at benchmarking the efficiency, quality and transparency of public procurement systems worldwide.The report updates all indicators as of May 1, 2018, ranks economies on their overall 'ease of doing business', and analyzes reforms to business regulation -- identifying which economies are strengthening their business environment the most.Doing Business illustrates how reforms in business regulations are being used to analyze economic outcomes for domestic entrepreneurs and for the wider economy. It is a flagship product produced in partnership by the World Bank Group that garners worldwide attention on regulatory barriers to entrepreneurship. Almost 140 economies have used the Doing Business indicators to shape reform agendas and monitor improvements on the ground
UR  - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/978-1-4648-1326-9
ER  -