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Doing Business 2017: Summary of Benin's Business Environment

Core Content

The Doing Business 2017 report evaluates the regulatory environment for small to medium-sized businesses across 190 economies, including Benin. It measures and tracks changes in regulations that affect 11 key areas of the business life cycle: 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 a distance to frontier (DTF) score and an ease of doing business ranking to assess how close an economy is to best practices and how it compares to other economies.

Key Information

Benin's Economy Overview

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Income Category: Low income
• Population: 10,879,829
• GNI per capita (US$): 860
• DB2017 Rank: 155
• DB2016 Rank: 153 (adjusted for methodology changes)
• Change in Rank: -2
• DB2017 DTF: 48.52
• DB2016 DTF: 47.5
• Change in DTF: +1.02

Main Indicators for Benin

Main Points

• Ease of Doing Business (EDB): Benin ranks 155th out of 190 economies in the EDB ranking, indicating significant challenges in the business environment.
• Distance to Frontier (DTF): Benin’s DTF score is 48.52, suggesting it has a long way to go to reach best practices.
• Gender Component: The report introduces a gender dimension in some indicators, measuring how procedures and costs differ for men and women entrepreneurs. Benin shows relatively small differences between men and women in starting a business, but it still lags behind best performers.
• New Indicators: The report includes new indicators such as the postfiling processes in the paying taxes section and equal evidentiary weight of women's testimony in enforcing contracts.
• Data Sources: The data in the report are current as of June 1, 2016, except for the paying taxes indicators, which cover the period January–December 2015.
• Methodology: The methodology includes adjustments for data revisions and changes in the way indicators are measured, which affects the rankings and DTF scores.

Conclusion

Benin faces substantial challenges in its business environment, particularly in areas such as getting electricity, dealing with construction permits, enforcing contracts, and resolving insolvency. While the country has made some progress, it still has a long way to go to reach the best practices observed in leading economies. The introduction of gender-specific indicators highlights the need for reforms that address potential disparities in the regulatory process for women. Policymakers can use this report to identify specific bottlenecks and implement targeted reforms to improve the business environment.