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Doing Business 2015: Denmark Summary

Core Content

Doing Business 2015 is a World Bank Group flagship report that evaluates the regulatory environment for small and medium-sized businesses across 189 economies. It measures and tracks changes in regulations across 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 introduces the Distance to Frontier (DTF) score, which benchmarks economies against the best practices, and the Ease of Doing Business ranking, which ranks economies from 1 to 189 based on their DTF scores. These indicators are used to analyze economic outcomes and assess the impact of regulatory reforms.

Main Points

• Denmark's Performance:

  • DB2015 Rank: 4
  • DB2014 Rank: 4 (adjusted for methodological changes)
  • DTF Score (DB2015): 84.2
  • DTF Score (DB2014): 84.1
  • Change in Rank: 0
  • Change in DTF: +0.1

• Key Indicators:

  • Starting a Business:
    • Rank: 25
    • DTF Score: 93.40
    • Procedures: 4
    • Time (days): 5.5
    • Cost (% of income per capita): 0.2
  • Dealing with Construction Permits:
    • Rank: 5
    • DTF Score: 89.84
    • Procedures: 7
    • Time (days): 64.0
    • Cost (% of warehouse value): 2.3
  • Getting Electricity:
    • Rank: 14
    • DTF Score: 91.07
    • Procedures: 4
    • Time (days): 38.0
    • Cost (% of income per capita): 114.9
  • Registering Property:
    • Rank: 8
    • DTF Score: 92.61
    • Procedures: 3
    • Time (days): 4.0
    • Cost (% of property value): 0.6
  • Getting Credit:
    • Rank: 23
    • DTF Score: 70.00
    • Strength of Legal Rights Index: 8
    • Depth of Credit Information Index: 6
  • Protecting Minority Investors:
    • Rank: 17
    • DTF Score: 67.50
    • Strength of Minority Investor Protection Index: 6.8
  • Paying Taxes:
    • Rank: 12
    • DTF Score: 91.94
    • Payments per Year: 10
    • Time (hours per year): 130.0
  • Trading Across Borders:
    • Rank: 7
    • DTF Score: 92.23
    • Documents to Export: 4
    • Time to Export (days): 6.0
    • Cost to Export (US$ per container): 795.0
  • Enforcing Contracts:
    • Rank: 34
    • DTF Score: 68.79
    • Time (days): 410.0
    • Cost (% of claim): 23.3
  • Resolving Insolvency:
    • Rank: 9
    • DTF Score: 84.59
    • Time (years): 1.0
    • Cost (% of estate): 4.0
    • Recovery Rate (cents on the dollar): 87.5

Key Methodological Changes in Doing Business 2015

• The ease of doing business ranking and all topic-level rankings are now based on distance to frontier scores.
• For 11 large economies, data for a second city have been added.
• The getting credit methodology has been revised, with an increase in the number of points for both the strength of legal rights index (from 10 to 12) and the depth of credit information index (from 6 to 8).
• The protecting investors indicator has been renamed to protecting minority investors and expanded to include shareholders' rights in corporate governance.
• The resolving insolvency indicator has been expanded to include an index measuring the strength of the legal framework.
• The paying taxes DTF score now uses a nonlinear approach for the total tax rate component.
• The employing workers indicator has been renamed to labor market regulation, focusing on the retail sector and including regulations on labor disputes and worker benefits.

Key Findings

• Denmark is ranked 4th globally in the ease of doing business and has a DTF score of 84.2, indicating it is close to the frontier of best practices.
• It maintains a stable rank and DTF score compared to the previous year.
• New Zealand is the best performer in several indicators, including starting a business and protecting minority investors.
• Singapore leads in trading across borders and enforcing contracts.
• Qatar has the lowest cost for registering property.
• The report highlights that Denmark's regulatory environment is efficient, but there are still areas where it can improve to reach the frontier.

Conclusion

The Doing Business 2015 report provides a comprehensive overview of Denmark's business regulatory environment, showing that it is among the most efficient in the world. While it maintains a stable position, the report identifies opportunities for further reform to reduce the number of procedures, time, and costs associated with business operations. The use of DTF scores allows for a more nuanced understanding of progress toward best practices.