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Doing Business 2015 - Solomon Islands Summary

Core Content

The Doing Business 2015 report evaluates the regulatory environment for small to medium-sized businesses across 189 economies, including Solomon Islands. It measures and tracks changes in regulations across 11 key areas of the business life cycle, such as starting a business, getting electricity, registering property, and enforcing contracts. The report provides an aggregate ranking and a distance to frontier (DTF) score for each economy, which reflects how close the economy is to the best regulatory practices.

Main Indicators and Rankings

Note: DB2014 rankings shown are not last year's published rankings but comparable rankings that capture the effects of data corrections and changes in methodology.

Key Findings

1. Starting a Business

• Rank: 93 (DB2015), 94 (DB2014)
• DTF Score: 84.60 (DB2015), 83.11 (DB2014)
• Procedures: 7 (DB2015), 7 (DB2014)
• Time (days): 9.0 (DB2015), 9.0 (DB2014)
• Cost (% of income per capita): 35.5 (DB2015), 47.5 (DB2014)
• Best Performer: New Zealand (rank 1), DTF score 99.96

2. Dealing with Construction Permits

• Rank: 36 (DB2015), 36 (DB2014)
• DTF Score: 80.73 (DB2015), 80.44 (DB2014)
• Procedures: 13 (DB2015), 13 (DB2014)
• Time (days): 98.0 (DB2015), 98.0 (DB2014)
• Cost (% of warehouse value): 1.0 (DB2015), 1.2 (DB2014)
• Best Performer: Hong Kong SAR, China (rank 1), DTF score 95.53

3. Getting Electricity

• Rank: 45 (DB2015), 123 (DB2014)
• DTF Score: 82.94 (DB2015), 65.26 (DB2014)
• Procedures: 4 (DB2015), 4 (DB2014)
• Time (days): 53.0 (DB2015), 160.0 (DB2014)
• Cost (% of income per capita): 1,562.8 (DB2015), 2,090.6 (DB2014)
• Best Performer: Korea, Rep. (rank 1), DTF score 99.83

4. Registering Property

• Rank: 156 (DB2015), 155 (DB2014)
• DTF Score: 50.84 (DB2015), 50.67 (DB2014)
• Procedures: 10 (DB2015), 10 (DB2014)
• Time (days): 86.5 (DB2015), 86.5 (DB2014)
• Cost (% of property value): 4.7 (DB2015), 4.8 (DB2014)
• Best Performer: Georgia (rank 1), DTF score 99.88

5. Getting Credit

• Rank: 71 (DB2015), 67 (DB2014)
• DTF Score: 50.00 (DB2015), 50.00 (DB2014)
• Strength of Legal Rights Index (0-12): 10 (DB2015), 10 (DB2014)
• Depth of Credit Information Index (0-8): 0 (DB2015), 0 (DB2014)
• Best Performer: New Zealand (rank 1), DTF score 100

6. Protecting Minority Investors

• Rank: 92 (DB2015), 89 (DB2014)
• DTF Score: 52.50 (DB2015), 52.50 (DB2014)
• Strength of Minority Investor Protection Index (0-10): 5.3 (DB2015), 5.3 (DB2014)
• Best Performer: New Zealand (rank 1), DTF score 81.67

7. Paying Taxes

• Rank: 58 (DB2015), 54 (DB2014)
• DTF Score: 78.42 (DB2015), 78.42 (DB2014)
• Payments (per year): 34 (DB2015), 34 (DB2014)
• Time (hours per year): 80.0 (DB2015), 80.0 (DB2014)
• Best Performer: United Arab Emirates (rank 1), DTF score 99.44

8. Trading Across Borders

• Rank: 87 (DB2015), 86 (DB2014)
• DTF Score: 74.24 (DB2015), 73.77 (DB2014)
• Documents to Export: 7 (DB2015), 7 (DB2014)
• Time to Export (days): 22.0 (DB2015), 22.0 (DB2014)
• Cost to Export (US$ per container): 840.0 (DB2015), 840.0 (DB2014)
• Best Performer: Ireland (rank 1), DTF score 96.47

9. Enforcing Contracts

• Rank: 150 (DB2015), 150 (DB2014)
• DTF Score: 44.63 (DB2015), 44.63 (DB2014)
• Time (days): 455.0 (DB2015), 455.0 (DB2014)
• Cost (% of claim): 78.9 (DB2015), 78.9 (DB2014)
• Best Performer: Singapore (rank 1), DTF score 89.54

10. Resolving Insolvency

• Rank: 139 (DB2015), 139 (DB2014)
• DTF Score: 31.87 (DB2015), 31.81 (DB2014)
• Time (years): 1.0 (DB2015), no data (DB2014)
• Cost (% of estate): 38.0 (DB2015), 38.0 (DB2014)
• Best Performer: Finland (rank 1), DTF score 93.85

Methodological Changes in Doing Business 2015

• Ranking Methodology: Ease of doing business ranking and topic-level rankings are now based on distance to frontier scores.
• Additional Data: For 11 large economies, data from a second city is included in the dataset and rankings.
• Getting Credit: The strength of legal rights index and depth of credit information index have been expanded from 10 to 12 and 6 to 8 points, respectively.
• Credit Registry Coverage: Only credit bureaus and registries covering at least 5% of the adult population are included in the depth of credit information index.
• Protecting Minority Investors: The scope has been expanded to include corporate governance beyond related-party transactions.
• Resolving Insolvency: Includes an index measuring the strength of the legal framework for insolvency.
• Paying Taxes: The total tax rate component now enters the DTF score in a nonlinear fashion.

Conclusion

The Doing Business 2015 report highlights the challenges and opportunities in the business regulatory environment of Solomon Islands. While the country has made some improvements in certain areas, such as starting a business and registering property, it still lags behind many comparator economies. The report serves as a valuable tool for policymakers to identify areas for reform and to understand how regulatory changes impact the ease of doing business.