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Doing Business 2017: Botswana Summary

Core Content

The Doing Business 2017 report, a flagship publication by the World Bank Group, evaluates the ease of doing business across 190 economies, including Botswana. It focuses on 11 key regulatory areas in the business life cycle, such as starting a business, getting electricity, registering property, and resolving insolvency. The report provides rankings and distance to frontier (DTF) scores to assess how close a country is to the best regulatory practices.

Key Indicators and Rankings

Main Points

• Ease of Doing Business Ranking: Botswana ranks 71st in 2017, down one position from 2016.
• Distance to Frontier (DTF): Botswana’s DTF score is 65.55 in 2017, up slightly from 65.39 in 2016.
• Methodology Changes: The 2017 edition introduces a gender dimension in several indicators, such as starting a business, registering property, and enforcing contracts. It also includes new data on Somalia and expands the paying taxes indicator to include postfiling processes like tax refunds, audits, and appeals.
• Focus on Business Life Cycle: The report measures regulations across 11 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.
• Comparative Data: The report provides comparative data with other economies, including Kenya, Mauritius, Namibia, South Africa, and the United Kingdom, to highlight Botswana’s performance in relation to its peers.
• Limitations: The report does not include labor market regulation in the overall ranking or DTF score. It also does not cover all factors that influence the business environment, such as proximity to large markets or macroeconomic stability.

Key Information

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Income Category: Upper middle income
• Population: 2,262,485
• GNI per capita (US$): 6,510
• DTF Score 2017: 65.55
• DTF Score 2016: 65.39
• Rank 2017: 71
• Rank 2016: 70 (adjusted for methodological changes)
• Report Source: World Bank Publications, 1818 H Street NW, Washington DC 20433
• License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO (CC BY 3.0 IGO)
• ISBN (paper): 978-1-4648-0948-4
• ISBN (electronic): 978-1-4648-0984-2
• DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-0948-4
• Website: www.doingbusiness.org

Conclusion

The report highlights that while Botswana has a relatively stable regulatory environment, it still faces challenges in several areas. It emphasizes the importance of benchmarking against best practices and understanding the gender-specific impacts of regulations. The introduction of the DTF score helps measure progress over time, offering a more detailed insight into the regulatory reforms needed.