Doing Business 2011: Making a Difference for Entrepreneurs - Armenia

76 Pages·2010·1.45 MB·English

by  World Bank

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Additional copies of Doing Business 2011: Making a Difference for Entrepreneurs, Doing Business 2010:
Reforming through Difficult Times, Doing Business 2009, Doing Business 2008, Doing Business 2007: How to
Reform, Doing Business in 2006: Creating Jobs, Doing Business in 2005: Removing Obstacles to Growth and
Doing Business in 2004:Understanding Regulations may be purchased at www.doingbusiness.org.
ISBN: 978-0-8213-7960-8
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DOI: 10.1596/978-0-8213-7960-8
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Current features
News on the Doing Business project
http://www.doingbusiness.org
Rankings
How economies rank-from 1 to 183
http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings/ Contents
Reformers
Short summaries of DB2011 reforms, lists of reformers since DB2004 Introduction
and a ranking simulation tool and Aggregate Rankings
http://www.doingbusiness.org/reforms/
5 - Year Measure of
Cumulative Change
Historical data
Customized data sets since DB2004
http://www.doingbusiness.org/custom-query/ Starting a Business
Dealing with
Methodology and research
The methodologies and research papers underlying Doing Business Construction Permits
http://www.doingbusiness.org/Methodology/
Registering Property
Download reports
Access to Doing Business reports as well as subnational and regional Getting Credit
reports, reform case studies and customized country and regional
profiles
Protecting Investors
http://www.doingbusiness.org/reports/
Paying Taxes
Subnational and regional projects
Differences in business regulations at the subnational and regional
Trading Across Borders
level
http://www.doingbusiness.org/subnational-reports/
Enforcing Contracts
Law Library Closing a Business
Online collection of business laws and regulations relating to
business and gender issues
Doing Business 2011
http://www.doingbusiness.org/law-library/ Business Reforms
http://wbl.worldbank.org/
Local partners
More than 8,200 specialists in 183 economies who participate in
Doing Business
http://www.doingbusiness.org/Local-Partners/Doing-Business/
Business Planet
Interactive map on the ease of doing business
http://rru.worldbank.org/businessplanet
Doing Business 2011 : Making a Difference for Entrepreneurs is the eighth in a series of annual reports investigating
regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators
on business regulations and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 183 economies, from
Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, over time.
A set of regulations affecting 9 stages of a business’s life are measured: starting a business, dealing with construction
permits, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing
contracts and closing a business. Data in Doing Business 2011 are current as of June 1, 2010*. The indicators are used
to analyze economic outcomes and identify what reforms have worked, where, and why.
The Doing Business methodology has limitations. Other areas important to business such as an economy’s proximity
to large markets, the quality of its infrastructure services (other than those related to trading across borders), the
security of property from theft and looting, the transparency of government procurement, macroeconomic conditions
or the underlying strength of institutions, are not studied directly by Doing Business. To make the data comparable
across economies, the indicators refer to a specific type of business, generally a local limited liability company
operating in the largest business city. Because standard assumptions are used in the data collection, comparisons and
benchmarks are valid across economies. The data not only highlight the extent of obstacles to doing business; they
also help identify the source of those obstacles, supporting policymakers in designing reform.
The data set covers 183 economies: 46 in Sub-Saharan Africa, 32 in Latin America and the Caribbean, 25 in Eastern
Europe and Central Asia, 24 in East Asia and Pacific, 18 in the Middle East and North Africa and 8 in South Asia, as
well as 30 OECD high-income economies.
The following pages present the summary Doing Business indicators for Armenia. The data used for this economy
profile come from the Doing Business database and are summarized in graphs. These graphs allow a comparison of
the economies in each region not only with one another but also with the “good practice” economy for each indicator.
The good-practice economies are identified by their position in each indicator as well as their overall ranking and by
their capacity to provide good examples of business regulation to other countries. These good-practice economies do
not necessarily rank number 1 in the topic or indicator, but they are in the top 10.
More information is available in the full report. Doing Business 2011 : Making a Difference for Entrepreneurs
presents the indicators, analyzes their relationship with economic outcomes and recommends reforms. The data, along
with information on ordering the report, are available on the Doing Business website (www.doingbusiness.org).
* Except for the Paying Taxes indicator that refers to the period January to December of 2009.
Note: 2008-2010 Doing Business data and rankings have been recalculated to reflect changes to the methodology
and the addition of new economies (in the case of the rankings).
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Economy Rankings - Ease of Doing Business
Armenia is ranked 48 out of 183 economies. Singapore is the top ranked economy in the Ease of Doing Business.
Armenia - Compared to global good practice economy as well as selected economies:
Armenia's ranking in Doing Business 2011
Rank Doing Business 2011
Ease of Doing Business 48
Starting a Business 22
Dealing with Construction Permits 78
Registering Property 5
Getting Credit 46
Protecting Investors 93
Paying Taxes 159
Trading Across Borders 82
Enforcing Contracts 63
Closing a Business 54
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Summary of Indicators - Armenia
Starting a Business Procedures (number) 6
Time (days) 15
Cost (% of income per capita) 3.1
Min. capital (% of income per capita) 0.0
Dealing with Construction Permits Procedures (number) 20
Time (days) 137
Cost (% of income per capita) 122.7
Registering Property Procedures (number) 3
Time (days) 7
Cost (% of property value) 0.3
Getting Credit Strength of legal rights index (0-10) 6
Depth of credit information index (0-6) 5
Public registry coverage (% of adults) 16.9
Private bureau coverage (% of adults) 38.3
Protecting Investors Extent of disclosure index (0-10) 5
Extent of director liability index (0-10) 2
Ease of shareholder suits index (0-10) 8
Strength of investor protection index (0-10) 5.0
Paying Taxes Payments (number per year) 50
Time (hours per year) 581
Profit tax (%) 16.6
Labor tax and contributions (%) 23.0
Other taxes (%) 1.1
Total tax rate (% profit) 40.7
Trading Across Borders Documents to export (number) 3
Time to export (days) 13
Cost to export (US$ per container) 1665
Documents to import (number) 6
Time to import (days) 18
Cost to import (US$ per container) 2045
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Enforcing Contracts Procedures (number) 49
Time (days) 285
Cost (% of claim) 19.0
Closing a Business Recovery rate (cents on the dollar) 40.6
Time (years) 1.9
Cost (% of estate) 4
The 5 year measure of cumulative change illustrates how the business regulatory environment has changed in 174 economies
from Doing Business 2006 to Doing Business 2011. Instead of highlighting which countries currently have the most business
friendly environment, this new approach shows the extent to which an economy’s regulatory environment for business has
changed compared with 5 years ago.
This snapshot reflects all cumulative changes in an economy’s business regulation as measured by the Doing Business
indicators-such as a reduction in the time to start a business thanks to a one-stop shop or an increase in the strength of
investor protection index thanks to new stock exchange rules that tighten disclosure requirements for related-party
transactions.
This figure shows the distribution of cumulative change across the 9 indicators and time between Doing Business 2006 and
Doing Business 2011
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1. Benchmarking Starting a Business Regulations:
Armenia is ranked 22 overall for Starting a Business.
Ranking of Armenia in Starting a Business - Compared to good practice and selected economies:
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