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Doing Business 2017: Kenya Summary

Core Content Overview

The Doing Business 2017 report by the World Bank provides an analysis of the regulatory environment for businesses in Kenya, comparing it to other economies and highlighting areas for improvement. The report evaluates 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. Kenya's performance in these areas is measured using two main metrics: the Distance to Frontier (DTF) score and the Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) ranking.

Main Points and Key Findings

1. Economy Profile

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Income Category: Lower middle income
• Population: 46,050,302
• GNI per capita (US$): 1,340
• DB2017 Rank: 92
• DB2016 Rank: 113 (adjusted for methodology changes)
• Change in Rank: Improved by 21 positions
• DB2017 DTF Score: 61.22
• DB2016 DTF Score: 57.5
• Change in DTF Score: Improved by 3.72 points

2. Key Indicators and Performance

3. Dealing with Construction Permits

• DB2017 Rank: 152
• DB2016 Rank: 155
• DTF Score: 57.18 (up from 55.59)
• Procedures: 17.0
• Time (days): 160.0
• Cost (% of warehouse value): 6.3
• Building Quality Control Index: 7.0

4. Getting Electricity

• DB2017 Rank: 106
• DB2016 Rank: 127
• DTF Score: 64.43 (up from 58.57)
• Procedures: 3.0
• Time (days): 97.0
• Cost (% of income): 642.0
• Reliability of supply and transparency of tariff index: 0.0

5. Registering Property

• DB2017 Rank: 121
• DB2016 Rank: 122
• DTF Score: 54.40 (up from 53.44)
• Procedures: 9.0
• Time (days): 61.0
• Cost (% of property value): 6.1
• Quality of land administration index: 16.0

6. Getting Credit

• DB2017 Rank: 32
• DB2016 Rank: 29
• DTF Score: 70.00 (unchanged from 70.00)
• Strength of legal rights index: 7.0
• Depth of credit information index: 7.0
• Credit registry coverage (% of adults): 0.0
• Credit bureau coverage (% of adults): 25.8

7. Protecting Minority Investors

• DB2017 Rank: 87
• DB2016 Rank: 112
• DTF Score: 53.33 (up from 46.67)
• Strength of minority investor protection index: 5.3
• Extent of conflict of interest regulation index: 6.7
• Extent of shareholder governance index: 4.0

8. Paying Taxes

• DB2017 Rank: 125
• DB2016 Rank: 122
• DTF Score: 61.72 (up from 61.54)
• Payments per year: 31.0
• Time (hours per year): 195.5
• Total tax rate (% of profit): 37.4
• Postfiling index: 32.1

9. Trading Across Borders

• DB2017 Rank: 105
• DB2016 Rank: 107
• DTF Score: 66.38 (up from 65.83)
• Time to export: Border compliance (hours): 21
• Cost to export: Border compliance (USD): 143
• Time to export: Documentary compliance (hours): 19
• Cost to export: Documentary compliance (USD): 191
• Time to import: Border compliance (hours): 180
• Cost to import: Border compliance (USD): 833
• Time to import: Documentary compliance (hours): 84
• Cost to import: Documentary compliance (USD): 115

10. Enforcing Contracts

• DB2017 Rank: 87
• DB2016 Rank: 85
• DTF Score: 58.27 (unchanged)
• Time (days): 465.0
• Cost (% of claim): 41.8
• Quality of judicial processes index: 9.0

11. Resolving Insolvency

• DB2017 Rank: 92
• DB2016 Rank: 140
• DTF Score: 43.39 (up from 30.64)
• Recovery rate (cents on the dollar): 28.4
• Time (years): 4.5
• Cost (% of estate): 22.0
• Strength of insolvency framework index: 9.0

Key Changes and Methodology

• The report includes a gender dimension in four indicators: starting a business, registering property, enforcing contracts, and labor market regulation.
• Postfiling processes (e.g., tax refunds, audits, appeals) are now included in the "Paying Taxes" indicator.
• A new pilot indicator on selling to the government was introduced.
• Somalia is included for the first time, bringing the total number of economies covered to 190.
• The DTF score is used to measure the absolute distance to regulatory best practices, while the EoDB ranking reflects relative improvements across economies.

Conclusion

The Doing Business 2017 report highlights Kenya's progress in improving its business environment, particularly in registering property, paying taxes, and resolving insolvency. However, challenges remain in areas such as dealing with construction permits, getting credit, and trading across borders. The introduction of gender-based indicators and postfiling processes adds a new dimension to the analysis, helping to identify gender-specific regulatory barriers and improving the overall understanding of business regulation. Kenya's performance is benchmarked against other economies in Sub-Saharan Africa and globally, providing valuable insights for policymakers aiming to enhance the ease of doing business.