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Doing Business 2016: Rwanda Summary

Core Content

Doing Business 2016 is a report by the World Bank that evaluates the regulatory environment for businesses across 189 economies. It focuses on 11 key areas of business regulation, 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 aggregate rankings and distance to frontier (DTF) scores, which measure how close an economy is to the best regulatory practices. Rwanda is ranked 62nd in the ease of doing business (DB2016) and 55th in the comparable ranking (DB2015). Its DTF score for DB2016 is 68.12, down from 68.88 in DB2015, indicating a slight decline in regulatory efficiency.

Key Indicators and Performance

Starting a Business

• Rank (DB2016): 111
• DTF Score (DB2016): 83.05
• Procedures (DB2016): 7
• Time (days): 5.5
• Cost (% of income per capita): 55.0
• Best performer: New Zealand (rank 1, DTF score 99.96)

Dealing with Construction Permits

• Rank (DB2016): 37
• DTF Score (DB2016): 76.34
• Procedures (DB2016): 11
• Time (days): 77.0
• Cost (% of warehouse value): 5.9
• Best performer: Singapore (rank 1, DTF score 92.97)

Getting Electricity

• Rank (DB2016): 118
• DTF Score (DB2016): 60.04
• Procedures (DB2016): 4
• Time (days): 34.0
• Cost (% of income per capita): 2,932.0
• Best performer: Republic of Korea (rank 1, DTF score 99.88)

Registering Property

• Rank (DB2016): 12
• DTF Score (DB2016): 87.75
• Procedures (DB2016): 3
• Time (days): 32.0
• Cost (% of property value): 0.1
• Best performer: New Zealand (rank 1, DTF score 94.46)

Getting Credit

• Rank (DB2016): 2
• DTF Score (DB2016): 95
• Strength of legal rights index: 11.0
• Depth of credit information index: 8.0
• Credit registry coverage (% of adults): 5.4
• Credit bureau coverage (% of adults): 18.8
• Best performer: New Zealand (DTF score 100)

Protecting Minority Investors

• Rank (DB2016): 88
• DTF Score (DB2016): 53.33
• Strength of minority investor protection index: 5.3
• Extent of conflict of interest regulation index: 6.3
• Extent of shareholder governance index: 4.3
• Best performer: Singapore (rank 1, DTF score 83.33)

Paying Taxes

• Rank (DB2016): 48
• DTF Score (DB2016): 81.48
• Number of payments per year: 25.0
• Best performer: United Arab Emirates (DTF score 99.44)

Trading Across Borders

• Rank (DB2016): Not included in aggregate ranking
• DTF Score (DB2016): Not included in aggregate ranking
• Time (days): Varies per economy
• Cost (% of export value): Varies per economy
• Best performer: 18 economies (DTF score 8.00)

Enforcing Contracts

• Rank (DB2016): Not included in aggregate ranking
• DTF Score (DB2016): Not included in aggregate ranking
• Time (days): Varies per economy
• Cost (% of export value): Varies per economy
• Best performer: 14 economies (DTF score 3.00)

Resolving Insolvency

• Rank (DB2016): Not included in aggregate ranking
• DTF Score (DB2016): Not included in aggregate ranking
• Time (days): Varies per economy
• Cost (% of export value): Varies per economy
• Best performer: 3 economies (DTF score 28.50)

Main Points and Key Information

• The report evaluates the ease of doing business by comparing regulations across 11 key areas.
• Rwanda's overall ranking in DB2016 is 62, slightly down from 55 in DB2015.
• Rwanda's DTF score is 68.12, showing it is closer to best practices than in 2015.
• The methodology was updated in 2016, adding new indicators and refining existing ones, such as the building quality control index and reliability of supply and transparency of tariff index.
• Registering property is one of Rwanda's strongest areas, with a DTF score of 87.75.
• Getting credit is another strong area, with a DTF score of 95.
• Protecting minority investors and paying taxes are areas where Rwanda lags behind, with DTF scores of 53.33 and 81.48, respectively.
• The report provides comparator economies for each indicator to facilitate benchmarking and understanding of regulatory challenges.

Methodology and Limitations

• The report uses DTF scores to measure the absolute distance to regulatory best practices.
• The ease of doing business ranking compares economies relative to each other.
• The labor market regulation indicators are excluded from the aggregate ranking but are still presented in the economy profile.
• The report does not include data on macroeconomic conditions, infrastructure quality (except for electricity and trade), or institutional strength, which may affect the overall business environment.

Conclusion

The Doing Business 2016 report highlights Rwanda's progress in improving its regulatory environment for businesses, particularly in registering property and getting credit. However, it also identifies areas for improvement, such as protecting minority investors and paying taxes. The report serves as a valuable tool for policymakers to understand regulatory challenges and design reforms that enhance business efficiency and attract investment.