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Doing Business 2017: Summary of Mali's Business Environment

Core Content Overview

The Doing Business 2017 report, published by the World Bank Group, evaluates the ease of doing business in 190 economies, including Mali, by analyzing regulatory reforms across 11 key areas of the business life cycle. These areas include:

• 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
• Labor market regulation

The report provides both rankings and distance to frontier (DTF) scores, which measure how close an economy is to the best regulatory practices globally. However, labor market regulation is excluded from the aggregate rankings and DTF score in this edition.

Key Findings for Mali

Ease of Doing Business Ranking (2017)

• DB2017 Rank: 141
• DB2016 Rank: 143
• Change in Rank: Improved by 2 positions

Distance to Frontier (DTF) Score (2017)

• DB2017 DTF: 52.96
• DB2016 DTF: 50.71
• Change in DTF: Increased by 2.25 points

Comparison with Comparator Economies

• Mali's performance is compared to other economies in the region (e.g., Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Mauritania, Niger) and globally (e.g., New Zealand, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, etc.).

Main Business Indicators

Starting a Business

• Rank: 108
• DTF Score: 84.12
• Procedures (Men): 5
• Time (Men): 8.5 days
• Cost (Men): 61.0% of income per capita
• Procedures (Women): 5
• Time (Women): 8.5 days
• Cost (Women): 61.0% of income per capita

Dealing with Construction Permits

• Rank: 142
• DTF Score: 61.02
• Procedures: 13
• Time: 124.0 days
• Cost: 6.5% of warehouse value

Getting Electricity

• Rank: 152
• DTF Score: 50.60
• Procedures: 4
• Time: 120.0 days
• Cost: 2964.7% of income per capita
• Reliability of Supply Index: 0.0
• Transparency of Tariff Index: 0.0

Registering Property

• Rank: 135
• DTF Score: 50.37
• Procedures: 5
• Time (Men/Women): 29.0 days
• Cost: 11.8% of property value
• Land Administration Index: 8.0

Getting Credit

• Rank: 139
• DTF Score: 30.00
• Procedures: 0
• Time: 270.0 hours per year
• Total Tax Rate: 48.3% of profit
• Credit Registry Coverage: 0.1% of adults
• Credit Bureau Coverage: 0.0% of adults
• Legal Rights Index: 6.0
• Credit Information Index: 0.0

Protecting Minority Investors

• Rank: 145
• DTF Score: 40.00
• Strength of Protection Index: 4.0
• Conflict of Interest Regulation Index: 4.3
• Shareholder Governance Index: 3.7

Paying Taxes

• Rank: 144
• DTF Score: 57.5
• Payments per Year: 35
• Time (Hours per Year): 270.0
• Total Tax Rate: 48.3% of profit
• Postfiling Index: 49.5

Trading Across Borders

• Rank: 89
• DTF Score: 70.79
• Time to Export (Border Compliance): 48 hours
• Cost to Export (Border Compliance): $242
• Time to Export (Documentary Compliance): 48 hours
• Cost to Export (Documentary Compliance): $33
• Time to Import (Border Compliance): 98 hours
• Cost to Import (Border Compliance): $298
• Time to Import (Documentary Compliance): 77 hours
• Cost to Import (Documentary Compliance): $375

Enforcing Contracts

• Rank: 156
• DTF Score: 43.73
• Time: 620.0 days
• Cost: 52.0% of claim
• Judicial Processes Index: 5.5

Resolving Insolvency

• Rank: 99
• DTF Score: 41.46
• Recovery Rate: 24.8 cents per dollar
• Time: 3.6 years
• Cost: 18.0% of estate
• Insolvency Framework Index: 9.0

Key Methodological Changes in 2017

• Expanded Indicators: The report now includes postfiling processes in the paying taxes indicator, such as tax refunds, audits, and appeals.
• Gender Component: Three indicators now include a gender dimension, measuring the differences in procedures, time, and cost between men and women entrepreneurs.
• New Pilot Indicator: A new indicator on selling to the government was introduced.
• Inclusion of Somalia: The report now covers Somalia for the first time, bringing the total number of economies to 190.

Key Takeaways

• Mali's Business Environment: Overall, Mali's regulatory environment is relatively inefficient compared to the global frontier.
• Improvements: Mali has made small improvements in several indicators, including a slight increase in the DTF score and a 2-position improvement in the overall ranking.
• Gender Disparities: Despite similar procedures and time for men and women, the cost for women is slightly higher in some areas, such as registering property and getting credit.
• Challenges: Mali faces significant challenges in areas such as getting electricity, registering property, and enforcing contracts, which are among the worst globally.
• Data Limitations: The report acknowledges that it does not cover all aspects of the business environment, such as infrastructure quality outside of the specific indicators, macroeconomic stability, or institutional strength.

Useful Resources

• The full report and data can be accessed at http://www.doingbusiness.org.
• For more details on the methodology, refer to the "Data Notes" chapter starting on page 114.
• For more information on the distance to frontier metric, see the "Distance to Frontier and Ease of Doing Business Ranking" chapter.