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Doing Business 2017: Somalia Summary

Core Content

The Doing Business 2017 report evaluates the regulatory environment for small to medium-sized businesses across 190 economies, focusing on 11 key areas in the business life cycle. It provides both an ease of doing business ranking and a distance to frontier (DTF) score, which measures how close an economy is to the best regulatory practices.

For Somalia, the report highlights the challenges in business regulation and offers comparative data with other economies in the region and globally. The methodology includes a gender dimension in several indicators, measuring the impact of regulations on male and female entrepreneurs separately.

Main Points

• Ease of Doing Business Ranking: Somalia is ranked 190th out of 190 economies, indicating it is among the worst in terms of regulatory environment.
• Distance to Frontier (DTF) Score: Somalia's DTF score is 20.29, suggesting it is far from best practices.
• Key Indicators and Performance:
  • Starting a Business: Somalia is ranked 184th with a DTF score of 48.71. Both men and women face the same number of procedures (9) and time (70 days), but the cost is 176.5% of income per capita.
  • Dealing with Construction Permits: Somalia is ranked 187th with a DTF score of 0.00. There is no practice in this area, indicating no formal procedures exist.
  • Getting Electricity: Somalia is ranked 188th with a DTF score of 0.00. It has no practice in this area, suggesting no formal process for obtaining electricity.
  • Registering Property: Somalia is ranked 148th with a DTF score of 47.97. It involves 5 procedures, taking 188 days, with a cost of 1.5% of property value.
  • Getting Credit: Somalia is ranked 185th with a DTF score of 0.00. There is no practice in this area, meaning credit systems are not functional.
  • Protecting Minority Investors: Somalia is ranked 190th with a DTF score of 0.00. There is no practice in this area, showing weak investor protections.
  • Paying Taxes: Somalia is ranked 190th with a DTF score of 0. There is no practice, meaning the tax system is not operational.
  • Trading Across Borders: Somalia is ranked 156th with a DTF score of 51.60. It takes 44 hours for border compliance and 76 hours for documentary compliance when exporting, and 85 hours for border compliance and 76 hours for documentary compliance when importing.
  • Enforcing Contracts: Somalia is ranked 109th with a DTF score of 54.58. It takes 575 days to enforce a contract and the cost is 21.4% of claim.
  • Resolving Insolvency: Somalia is ranked 169th with a DTF score of 0.00. There is no practice, showing a lack of legal frameworks for insolvency resolution.

Key Information

• Methodology Changes: This edition includes a gender component in several indicators, allowing for the assessment of differences in regulatory processes for men and women.
• Comparative Economies: Data is compared with Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda, and global best performers.
• Data Sources: The data is current as of June 1, 2016, except for the paying taxes indicators, which cover January–December 2015.
• Limitations: The report does not cover all aspects of the business environment, such as market access, infrastructure quality, institutional strength, or macroeconomic conditions.
• Ranking Notes: The rankings and DTF scores are based on comparable data and methodological updates, which may differ from previous years.

Conclusion

Somalia faces significant challenges in its regulatory environment for business, with no formal procedures in several critical areas, including getting credit, paying taxes, and protecting minority investors. While the DTF scores provide a measure of how far the country is from best practices, the overall ranking shows that it lags far behind many other economies. The inclusion of a gender dimension adds nuance to the analysis, highlighting the potential for unequal treatment in regulatory processes. These findings support policymakers in identifying reforms and improving the business environment.