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Doing Business 2017: Guyana Summary

Core Content

Doing Business 2017 is a World Bank Group flagship report that evaluates the regulatory environment for businesses across 190 economies. It measures and tracks changes in regulations affecting 11 key areas of the business life cycle, 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 a comparative analysis of these indicators to support policy makers in identifying areas for reform and improving the ease of doing business.

Key Points

• Methodology Changes in 2017:

  • Introduced a gender component in several indicators, measuring the impact on women entrepreneurs.
  • Added a new pilot indicator on selling to the government.
  • Expanded the dataset to include Somalia.

• Economy Profile:

  • Guyana is located in Latin America & Caribbean, with an upper middle income status.
  • Population: 767,085
  • GNI per capita: $4,090
  • DB2017 Rank: 124 (up from 140 in DB2016)
  • DB2017 DTF: 56.26 (up from 51.38 in DB2016)

Main Indicators Overview

Starting a Business

• DB2017 Rank: 99
• DTF Score: 85.45
• Procedures (Men): 7
• Time (Men): 18 days
• Cost (Men): 10.7% of income per capita
• Procedures (Women): 7
• Time (Women): 18 days
• Cost (Women): 10.7% of income per capita

Dealing with Construction Permits

• DB2017 Rank: 148
• DTF Score: 59.28
• Procedures: 15
• Time: 188 days
• Cost: 0.6% of warehouse value

Getting Electricity

• DB2017 Rank: 129
• DTF Score: 58.46
• Procedures: 8
• Time: 82 days
• Cost: 404.6% of income per capita

Registering Property

• DB2017 Rank: 122
• DTF Score: 54.31
• Procedures: 6
• Time: 75 days
• Cost: 4.6% of property value

Getting Credit

• DB2017 Rank: 82
• DTF Score: 50.00
• Strength of Legal Rights Index: 3
• Depth of Credit Information Index: 7
• Credit Bureau Coverage: 16.4% of adults

Protecting Minority Investors

• DB2017 Rank: 87
• DTF Score: 53.33
• Strength of Minority Investor Protection Index: 5.3
• Conflict of Interest Regulation Index: 6.0

Paying Taxes

• DB2017 Rank: 136
• DTF Score: 59.27
• Number of Payments per Year: 35
• Time (hours per year): 256
• Total Tax Rate (% of profit): 32.3%

Trading Across Borders

• DB2017 Rank: 135
• DTF Score: 59.33
• Time to Export (Border Compliance): 72 hours
• Cost to Export (Border Compliance): $378
• Time to Export (Documentary Compliance): 200 hours
• Cost to Export (Documentary Compliance): $78
• Time to Import (Border Compliance): 84 hours
• Cost to Import (Border Compliance): $265
• Time to Import (Documentary Compliance): 156 hours
• Cost to Import (Documentary Compliance): $63

Enforcing Contracts

• DB2017 Rank: 91
• DTF Score: 57.62
• Time (days): 581
• Cost (% of claim): 25.2%
• Quality of Judicial Processes Index: 7.0

Resolving Insolvency

• DB2017 Rank: 154
• DTF Score: 25.55
• Recovery Rate (cents on the dollar): 18.4
• Time (years): 3.0
• Cost (% of estate): 28.5%

Key Findings

• Guyana has improved its distance to frontier score from 51.38 in DB2016 to 56.26 in DB2017, indicating progress in business regulations.
• The ease of doing business ranking for Guyana has improved from 140 to 124, showing a more favorable environment for businesses.
• Gender-specific procedures are still present, though the number of procedures for both men and women is the same.
• Paying taxes remains a significant burden, with a high cost relative to income per capita.
• Registering property is relatively straightforward, with a low number of procedures and a moderate time and cost.
• Getting credit is challenging, with low credit bureau coverage and a low depth of credit information index.
• Trading across borders involves long times and high costs, particularly for documentary compliance.
• Enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency are areas where Guyana lags behind the best performers, with long times and moderate costs.

Conclusion

The Doing Business 2017 report highlights that while Guyana has made some progress in improving its business environment, there are still significant challenges in areas such as paying taxes, getting credit, and trading across borders. The inclusion of gender components in several indicators adds a new dimension to the analysis, emphasizing the need for reforms that address the specific needs of women entrepreneurs. Overall, Guyana's performance suggests that further regulatory improvements are necessary to enhance the ease of doing business and attract investment.