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Doing Business 2015: Suriname Summary

Core Content Overview

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 in the business life cycle, including starting a business, getting electricity, registering property, and resolving insolvency. The report provides aggregate rankings and distance to frontier (DTF) scores to compare regulatory performance.

Main Topics and Key Indicators

Key Findings and Analysis

Ease of Doing Business Ranking

• Suriname's DB2015 rank is 162, a drop of 3 from DB2014.
• The DTF score increased slightly from 48.9 to 49.3, indicating a minor improvement in regulatory performance.
• Suriname's performance is relatively low compared to other comparator economies in the region and globally.

Starting a Business

• Suriname requires 13 procedures and takes 84 days to start a business.
• The cost is 106.4% of income per capita, which is significantly higher than most comparator economies.
• It is ranked 181, the lowest among all comparator economies in the region.

Dealing with Construction Permits

• Suriname requires 10 procedures, taking 223 days and costing 0.2% of warehouse value.
• It is ranked 79, with a DTF score of 74.13, showing room for improvement.
• Dominica and the Dominican Republic have more efficient procedures, with Dominica at 175 days and the Dominican Republic at 184 days.

Getting Electricity

• Suriname ranks 69, with a DTF score of 78.68.
• It requires 4 procedures, takes 113 days, and costs 486.1% of income per capita.
• The best performer, South Korea, has a DTF score of 99.83, significantly higher than Suriname.

Registering Property

• Suriname ranks 178, with a DTF score of 38.92.
• It requires 6 procedures, takes 106 days, and costs 13.7% of property value.
• Georgia is the best performer with a DTF score of 99.88.

Getting Credit

• Suriname ranks 171, with a DTF score of 10.00.
• The strength of legal rights index is 2/12, and the depth of credit information index is 0/8.
• Suriname has no credit bureau coverage (0.0%), which severely limits access to credit.

Protecting Minority Investors

• Suriname ranks 171, with a DTF score of 34.17.
• The strength of minority investor protection index is 3.4/10.
• It lags behind comparator economies, with Jamaica and Puerto Rico performing better.

Paying Taxes

• Suriname ranks 71, with a DTF score of 76.45.
• It requires 30 payments annually, taking 199 hours.
• The best performer is the United Arab Emirates, with only 3 payments and 55 hours.

Trading Across Borders

• Suriname ranks 106, with a DTF score of 69.42.
• It requires 8 documents to export, taking 22 days and costing $1,050 per container.
• For imports, it requires 6 documents, taking 19 days and costing $1,190 per container.
• The best performer is Singapore, with only 2 documents for imports and 4 days.

Enforcing Contracts

• Suriname ranks 184, with a DTF score of 28.84.
• It requires 44 procedures, taking 1,715 days and costing 37.1% of claim.
• The best performer is Singapore, with 21 procedures, 150 days, and 9.0 cents on the dollar recovery rate.

Resolving Insolvency

• Suriname ranks 130, with a DTF score of 34.27.
• It takes 5 years to resolve insolvency, costing 30% of estate.
• The best performer is Finland, with a DTF score of 93.85, and only 0.4 years to resolve insolvency.

Methodology Changes in Doing Business 2015

• The ease of doing business ranking and topic-level rankings are now based on distance to frontier scores.
• For the 11 largest economies (with populations over 100 million), data for a second city has been added.
• Getting credit now includes a revised strength of legal rights index (0–12) and depth of credit information index (0–8), with higher point scales.
• Protecting minority investors has been expanded to include shareholders' rights in corporate governance.
• Paying taxes now uses a nonlinear approach for the total tax rate component.
• Labor market regulation has been updated to focus on the retail sector, replacing the manufacturing sector.

Conclusion

Suriname's business environment is generally inefficient, with high costs, long procedures, and slow processing times in most areas. It ranks 162 out of 189 in the ease of doing business and has a DTF score of 49.3, indicating a distance to the frontier. While there are some small improvements in certain indicators, such as the DTF score, the overall performance remains below average compared to comparator economies and global best practices. The report highlights the need for regulatory reforms to improve efficiency and reduce business costs.