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Doing Business 2017: Australia Summary

Core Content

The Doing Business 2017 report, published by the World Bank Group, evaluates the regulatory environment for businesses across 190 economies, focusing on 11 key areas in the business life cycle. Australia is ranked 15th in the ease of doing business ranking and has a Distance to Frontier (DTF) score of 80.26, slightly improving from 80.25 in 2016. The report highlights the ease of business processes, the cost and time involved, and introduces a gender dimension in several indicators.

Main Points

• Methodology Overview: The report measures and tracks changes in regulations affecting business operations. It includes a gender component in three indicators and a new pilot indicator on selling to the government. The methodology is based on a standard set of assumptions and benchmarks, enabling comparisons across economies.

• Key Indicators and Rankings:

  • Starting a Business: Australia ranks 7th with a DTF score of 96.47. The number of procedures is 3 for both men and women, with a time of 2.5 days and a cost of 0.7% of income per capita.
  • Dealing with Construction Permits: Australia ranks 2nd with a DTF score of 86.56. It involves 10 procedures, taking 112 days and costing 0.5% of warehouse value.
  • Getting Electricity: Australia ranks 41st with a DTF score of 82.31. It requires 5 procedures, taking 75 days and costing 12.6% of income per capita.
  • Registering Property: Australia ranks 45th with a DTF score of 74.22. It involves 5 procedures, taking 4.5 days and costing 5.2% of property value.
  • Getting Credit: Australia ranks 5th with a DTF score of 90.00. It involves 7 procedures, taking 105 hours per year and costing 47.6% of profit.
  • Protecting Minority Investors: Australia ranks 63rd with a DTF score of 58.33. It involves 5.8 on the strength of legal rights index and 6.0 on the conflict of interest regulation index.
  • Paying Taxes: Australia ranks 25th with a DTF score of 85.6. It involves 11 payments per year, taking 105 hours and costing 47.6% of profit.
  • Trading Across Borders: Australia ranks 91st with a DTF score of 70.65. It takes 36 hours to export (border compliance) and 7 hours for documentary compliance, with costs of $749 and $264 respectively.
  • Enforcing Contracts: Australia ranks 3rd with a DTF score of 79.72. It takes 395 days and costs 21.8% of the claim.
  • Resolving Insolvency: Australia ranks 21st with a DTF score of 78.73. It takes 1 year to resolve insolvency and has a recovery rate of 82.4 cents per dollar.

Key Information

• Data Sources: The data in the report are current as of June 1, 2016, except for the paying taxes indicators, which cover the period January–December 2015.
• Comparators: The report includes data from other selected economies (such as Canada, Hong Kong SAR, Japan, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States) to facilitate comparison.
• Gender Component: The report introduces a gender dimension in several indicators, including starting a business, registering property, and enforcing contracts. It measures the additional procedures and time for women entrepreneurs.
• Limitations: The report does not include data on all aspects of the business environment, such as proximity to large markets, infrastructure quality (beyond electricity and border compliance), or macroeconomic conditions. It focuses on a specific type of business—local limited liability companies in the largest business city.
• DTF and Rankings: The DTF score provides an absolute measure of how far an economy is from the best practices in each indicator, while the ease of doing business ranking reflects relative performance across economies. Australia's DTF score slightly increased, but its ranking decreased by 2 positions.

Summary of Australia's Performance

Conclusion

The Doing Business 2017 report provides a comprehensive overview of Australia's business environment, highlighting its strengths and areas for improvement. While Australia performs well in several areas, it still has room to enhance its regulatory environment to match global best practices. The introduction of a gender component adds new insights into how women entrepreneurs experience the business process, which is crucial for achieving equal opportunity. The report serves as a valuable tool for policymakers to identify regulatory reforms that can improve the ease of doing business.