Doing Business Economy Profile 2016 : Gambia, The

Doing Business sheds light on how easy or difficult it is for a local entrepreneur to open and run a small to medium-size business when complying with relevant regulations. It measures and tracks changes in regulations affecting 11 areas in the life cycle of a business: starting a business, dea...

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Main Author: World Bank Group
Format: Report
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:
FAX
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/11/25263445/doing-business-2016-measuring-regulatory-quality-efficiency-gambia
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23257
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Summary:Doing Business sheds light on how easy or difficult it is for a local entrepreneur to open and run a small to medium-size business when complying with relevant regulations. It measures and tracks changes in regulations affecting 11 areas in the life cycle of a business: 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. Doing Business 2016 presents the data for the labor market regulation indicators in an annex. The report does not present rankings of economies on labor market regulation indicators or include the topic in the aggregate distance to frontier score or ranking on the ease of doing business. This economy profile presents the Doing Business indicators for Gambia, The. To allow useful comparison, it also provides data for other selected economies (comparator economies) for each indicator.