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Doing Business 2015: Cabo Verde Summary

Core Content

Doing Business 2015 is a World Bank Group flagship report that evaluates and compares business regulations across 189 economies, focusing on the ease of doing business for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The report measures regulatory practices in 11 key areas of the business life cycle, including starting a business, getting electricity, registering property, and resolving insolvency.

The report provides an aggregate ranking on the ease of doing business and a distance to frontier (DTF) score, which quantifies how far an economy is from the best regulatory practices. The DTF score is on a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is the worst performance and 100 is the best (frontier). The rankings are based on the average DTF scores across the 10 indicators included in the ease of doing business ranking.

Cabo Verde is ranked 122nd in the 2015 ease of doing business ranking, with a DTF score of 57.9, showing a slight decline from 58 in 2014. This report also includes data comparisons with other selected economies in the region and globally, such as Angola, The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and Senegal.

Key Changes in Methodology

1. Ease of Doing Business Ranking: Based on DTF scores rather than direct comparisons.
2. Additional Data for Large Economies: For the 11 economies with a population over 100 million, data from a second city is included.
3. Revised Methodology for Getting Credit:
   • Increased number of points from 10 to 12 for the strength of legal rights index.
   • Increased number of points from 6 to 8 for the depth of credit information index.
   • Only credit bureaus and registries covering at least 5% of the adult population are eligible for scoring.
4. Renamed and Expanded Indicators:
   • Protecting Investors renamed to Protecting Minority Investors, now covering shareholders' rights in corporate governance.
   • Resolving Insolvency now includes an index measuring the strength of the legal framework for insolvency.
5. Nonlinear Calculation for Paying Taxes: The total tax rate is now calculated non-linearly, different from other indicators.
6. Renamed Labor Market Regulation: The employing workers indicator was renamed to labor market regulation, now focusing on the retail sector and including labor disputes and worker benefits.

Key Indicators and Performance

Starting a Business

• Rank: 78 (DB2015), 71 (DB2014)
• DTF Score: 87.00 (DB2015), 87.10 (DB2014)
• Procedures: 7
• Time (days): 10
• Cost (% of income per capita): 14.3
• Best Performer: New Zealand (1)

Dealing with Construction Permits

• Rank: 114 (DB2015), 112 (DB2014)
• DTF Score: 67.53 (DB2015), 67.63 (DB2014)
• Procedures: 16
• Time (days): 140
• Cost (% of warehouse value): 4.1
• Best Performer: Hong Kong SAR, China (1)

Getting Electricity

• Rank: 133 (DB2015), 133 (DB2014)
• DTF Score: 63.80 (DB2015), 63.98 (DB2014)
• Procedures: 7
• Time (days): 88
• Cost (% of income per capita): 932.2
• Best Performer: Republic of Korea (1)

Registering Property

• Rank: 62 (DB2015), 61 (DB2014)
• DTF Score: 74.50 (DB2015), 74.59 (DB2014)
• Procedures: 6
• Time (days): 22
• Cost (% of property value): 3.7
• Best Performer: Georgia (1)

Getting Credit

• Rank: 104 (DB2015), 99 (DB2014)
• DTF Score: 40.00 (DB2015), 40.00 (DB2014)
• Strength of Legal Rights Index: 2
• Depth of Credit Information Index: 6
• Credit Registry Coverage (% of adults): 16.7
• Best Performer: New Zealand (12)

Protecting Minority Investors

• Rank: 170 (DB2015), 169 (DB2014)
• DTF Score: 35.00 (DB2015), 35.00 (DB2014)
• Shareholder Governance Index: 3
• Minority Investor Protection Index: 3.5
• Best Performer: New Zealand (8.2)

Paying Taxes

• Rank: 91 (DB2015), 86 (DB2014)
• DTF Score: 73.05 (DB2015), 73.05 (DB2014)
• Payments per Year: 30
• Time (hours per year): 186
• Best Performer: United Arab Emirates (3)

Trading Across Borders

• Rank: 101 (DB2015), 99 (DB2014)
• DTF Score: 70.92 (DB2015), 71.33 (DB2014)
• Documents to Export: 7
• Time to Export (days): 20
• Cost to Export (US$ per container): 1,125
• Best Performer: Singapore (1)

Enforcing Contracts

• Rank: 39 (DB2015), 39 (DB2014)
• DTF Score: 67.61 (DB2015), 67.61 (DB2014)
• Time (days): 425
• Cost (% of claim): 19.8
• Procedures: 37
• Best Performer: Singapore (1)

Resolving Insolvency

• Rank: 189 (DB2015), 189 (DB2014)
• DTF Score: 0.00 (DB2015), 0.00 (DB2014)
• Time (years): No practice
• Cost (% of estate): No practice
• Recovery Rate (cents on the dollar): 0.0
• Best Performer: Finland (1)

Key Insights

• Cabo Verde's ease of doing business ranking has slightly declined from 118 in 2014 to 122 in 2015.
• The DTF score also shows a minimal decline, from 58 to 57.9.
• The report highlights that while Cabo Verde has improved in some areas, such as registering property and getting electricity, major bottlenecks remain in areas like resolving insolvency and enforcing contracts.
• The labor market regulation indicators are excluded from the aggregate DTF ranking but are still presented in the report.
• The data for the report is current as of June 1, 2014, except for paying taxes, which covers January–December 2013.

Conclusion

The Doing Business 2015 report provides a comprehensive assessment of Cabo Verde's regulatory environment for SMEs. While the country has made progress in some areas, it still faces significant challenges in others. The report is a valuable tool for policy makers to identify areas for regulatory reform and improve the business environment. The data is available on the Doing Business website at http://www.doingbusiness.org.