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Doing Business 2015: Sri Lanka Summary

Core Content

The Doing Business 2015 report evaluates the ease of doing business in Sri Lanka by analyzing regulations across 11 key areas of the business life cycle. It provides a comparative analysis with other economies and includes both rankings and distance to frontier (DTF) scores to measure regulatory performance.

Main Points

1. Report Overview

• Doing Business is a World Bank Group flagship report that measures and tracks changes in business regulations across 189 economies.
• It evaluates regulations affecting small to medium businesses and provides quantitative indicators that can be used to compare economic performance and identify successful reforms.

2. Methodology Changes in 2015

• Ease of Doing Business Ranking: Based on DTF scores, which show the absolute distance to the best performance in each indicator.
• Additional Data for Large Populations: For 11 economies with over 100 million people, data for a second city was added.
• Revised Indicators:
  • Getting Credit: Updated indices for the strength of legal rights and depth of credit information.
  • Protecting Minority Investors: Expanded scope to include corporate governance beyond related-party transactions.
  • Resolving Insolvency: Added an index measuring the strength of the legal framework for insolvency.
  • Paying Taxes: Nonlinear calculation of the total tax rate component.
• Labor Market Regulation: Changed from "employing workers" to focus on the retail sector and include regulations on labor disputes and worker benefits.

Key Indicators for Sri Lanka

Ease of Doing Business Ranking

• DB2015 Rank: 99
• DB2014 Rank: 105 (adjusted for data and methodology changes)
• Rank Change: Improved by 6 positions

Distance to Frontier (DTF) Score

• DB2015 DTF: 61.4
• DB2014 DTF: 60.0
• DTF Change: Increased by 1.4 points

Business Environment Analysis

Starting a Business

• Rank: 104 (DB2015), 101 (DB2014)
• DTF Score: 83.01 (DB2015), 82.34 (DB2014)
• Procedures: 9
• Time (days): 11.0
• Cost (% of income per capita): 20.7 (DB2015), 26.1 (DB2014)
• Best Performer: New Zealand (rank 1)

Dealing with Construction Permits

• Rank: 60 (DB2015), 60 (DB2014)
• DTF Score: 76.50 (DB2015), 76.44 (DB2014)
• Procedures: 12.0
• Time (days): 169.0
• Cost (% of warehouse value): 0.3
• Best Performer: Hong Kong SAR, China (rank 1)

Getting Electricity

• Rank: 100 (DB2015), 100 (DB2014)
• DTF Score: 72.71 (DB2015), 72.24 (DB2014)
• Procedures: 5.0
• Time (days): 104.0
• Cost (% of income per capita): 901.6
• Best Performer: Republic of Korea (rank 1)

Registering Property

• Rank: 131 (DB2015), 124 (DB2014)
• DTF Score: 58.45 (DB2015), 58.44 (DB2014)
• Procedures: 9.0
• Time (days): 51.0
• Cost (% of property value): 5.1
• Best Performer: Georgia (rank 1)

Getting Credit

• Rank: 89 (DB2015), 86 (DB2014)
• DTF Score: 45.00 (DB2015), 45.00 (DB2014)
• Strength of Legal Rights Index: 3 (0–12)
• Depth of Credit Information Index: 6 (0–8)
• Credit Bureau Coverage (% of adults): 44.5
• Best Performer: New Zealand (rank 1)

Protecting Minority Investors

• Rank: 51 (DB2015), 50 (DB2014)
• DTF Score: 59.17 (DB2015), 59.17 (DB2014)
• Strength of Minority Investor Protection Index: 5.9 (0–10)
• Best Performer: New Zealand (rank 1)

Paying Taxes

• Rank: 158 (DB2015), 167 (DB2014)
• DTF Score: 55.00 (DB2015), 45.93 (DB2014)
• Payments (per year): 47.0
• Time (hours per year): 167.0
• Best Performer: Hong Kong SAR, China (rank 1)

Trading Across Borders

• Rank: 69 (DB2015), 85 (DB2014)
• DTF Score: 76.94 (DB2015), 73.96 (DB2014)
• Documents to Export: 7
• Time to Export (days): 16.0
• Cost to Export (US$ per container): 560.0
• Best Performer: Singapore (rank 1)

Enforcing Contracts

• Rank: 165 (DB2015), 165 (DB2014)
• DTF Score: 38.96 (DB2015), 38.96 (DB2014)
• Time (days): 1,318.0
• Cost (% of claim): 22.8
• Procedures: 40.0
• Best Performer: Singapore (rank 1)

Resolving Insolvency

• Rank: 72 (DB2015), 68 (DB2014)
• DTF Score: 47.81 (DB2015), 47.59 (DB2014)
• Time (years): 1.7
• Cost (% of estate): 10.0
• Recovery Rate (cents per dollar): 42.4
• Strength of Insolvency Framework Index: 8.0 (0–16)
• Best Performer: Finland (rank 1)

Key Takeaways

• Sri Lanka has made progress in some areas, such as starting a business and registering property, but still lags behind many comparator economies.
• The distance to frontier metric helps track progress over time and identify regulatory improvements.
• Sri Lanka's DTF scores and ranks are relatively stable, showing a slight improvement in some indicators.
• Paying taxes remains a significant challenge, with a high cost and time burden.
• Enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency are areas where Sri Lanka has room for improvement.
• The labor market regulation indicators focus on retail and include new aspects like labor disputes and worker benefits.

Conclusion

The Doing Business 2015 report highlights that Sri Lanka has made modest improvements in its regulatory environment, particularly in areas like starting a business and registering property. However, it still faces challenges in paying taxes, enforcing contracts, and resolving insolvency. The report emphasizes the importance of understanding the distance to frontier and comparator economies to identify gaps and guide future reforms.