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Doing Business 2014: Chile Summary

Core Content

The Doing Business report evaluates the ease of doing business in 189 economies by measuring regulations affecting key areas of the business life cycle. This summary focuses on Chile, highlighting its performance and reforms in these areas.

Key Indicators and Rankings

Main Points

• Ease of Doing Business Index: Chile ranks 34th globally, with no significant change from 2013. Its Distance to Frontier (DTF) score is 70.74, indicating it is close to the best practices in most areas.
• Business Life Cycle Indicators: The report covers 11 areas, including starting a business, construction permits, electricity, property registration, credit, investor protection, taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, resolving insolvency, and employing workers.
• Methodology: The rankings are based on the simple average of percentile rankings across 10 topics. The DTF measure helps assess progress toward best practices over time.
• Limitations: The report does not include all aspects of the business environment, such as proximity to large markets or infrastructure quality outside of the specific indicators.

Business Environment Overview

• Region: OECD high-income economy
• Income Category: High income
• Population: 17,464,814
• GNI per capita (US$): 14,280
• DB2014 Rank: 34
• DB2013 Rank: 34 (adjusted for data corrections and new economies added)
• DTF (2014): 70.74
• DTF (2013): 70.70

Key Areas of Business Regulation

Starting a Business

• Procedures: 7
• Time: 5.5 days
• Cost: 0.7% of income per capita
• Paid-in Minimum Capital: 0.0% of income per capita
• Improvements: Chile introduced an online system for registration and filing the request for publication in 2011, and a new online system for business registration in 2014.

Dealing with Construction Permits

• Rank: 101
• Procedures: 15
• Time: 155.0 days
• Cost: 69.9% of income per capita
• Global Best Performer: Hong Kong SAR, China (1)

Getting Electricity

• Rank: 43
• Procedures: 6
• Time: 30 days
• Cost: 63.9% of income per capita
• Global Best Performer: Germany (17)

Registering Property

• Rank: 55
• Procedures: 6
• Time: 28.5 days
• Cost: 1.2% of property value
• Global Best Performer: New Zealand (1.0)

Getting Credit

• Rank: 55
• Procedures: 36
• Time: 480 days
• Cost: 28.6% of claim
• Global Best Performer: Bhutan (0.1)

Protecting Investors

• Rank: 34
• Procedures: 36
• Time: 3.2 years
• Cost: 15% of estate
• Global Best Performer: Japan (1)

Paying Taxes

• Rank: 38
• Procedures: 7
• Time: 291 hours per year
• Cost: 0.7% of income per capita
• Global Best Performer: United Arab Emirates (1)

Trading Across Borders

• Rank: 40
• Documents to Export: 5
• Time to Export: 15 days
• Cost to Export (US$ per container): 980
• Documents to Import: 5
• Time to Import: 12 days
• Cost to Import (US$ per container): 930
• Global Best Performer: Singapore (1)

Enforcing Contracts

• Rank: 64
• Procedures: 36
• Time: 480 days
• Cost: 28.6% of claim
• Global Best Performer: Bhutan (0.1)

Resolving Insolvency

• Rank: 102
• Time: 3.2 years
• Cost: 15% of estate
• Global Best Performer: Ireland (0.4)

Key Reforms in Chile

• DB2009 and DB2010: No reforms recorded.
• DB2011: Introduced an online system for registration and filing the request for publication.
• DB2012: Provided immediate temporary operating licenses to new companies, eliminating the need for tax authority inspections and allowing free online publication.
• DB2013: No reforms recorded.
• DB2014: Created a new online system for business registration.

Conclusion

Chile has made notable improvements in streamlining business registration and reducing the time and cost required to start a business. However, it still faces challenges in areas such as construction permits and resolving insolvency. The report emphasizes the importance of continuous regulatory reform to improve the business environment and enhance economic competitiveness.