Doing Business in Afghanistan 2017
Doing Business in Afghanistan 2017 is the first report of the subnational Doing Business series in Afghanistan. It measures business regulations and their enforcement in five provinces. The provinces are compared against each other, and with 189 ot...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/892331504180273025/Doing-business-2017-comparing-business-regulation-for-5-Afghan-provinces-with-189-other-economies http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28491 |
| Summary: | Doing Business in Afghanistan 2017 is
the first report of the subnational Doing Business series in
Afghanistan. It measures business regulations and their
enforcement in five provinces. The provinces are compared
against each other, and with 189 other economies worldwide.
The objective of the study is to gain a broader
understanding of the business regulatory environment across
Afghanistan as well as to provide good-practice examples and
reform recommendations to help guide policy at the national
and subnational levels. The study focuses on indicator sets
that measure the complexity and cost of regulatory processes
affecting four stages in the life of a small to medium-size
domestic firm—starting a business, dealing with construction
permits, getting electricity and registering property. These
four indicator sets were selected because they relate to
areas of business regulation in which implementation of the
common legal and regulatory framework differs across
locations—because of differences in local interpretations of
the law and in the resources and efficiency of local
agencies responsible for administering regulation. While
highly centralized line ministries hold the direct formal
authority for the delivery of most services in the
provinces, cutting across this system are the provincial
governors, who have little formal responsibility for service
delivery but wield local power and authority. The report
also includes a gender dimension, with the indicator sets
for starting a business and registering property expanded to
account for gender-differentiated practices. |
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