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Belarus Economy Profile - Doing Business 2013 Summary

Core Content Overview

The Doing Business 2013 report provides an assessment of the regulatory environment for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Belarus, comparing it with other economies and highlighting key reforms and challenges.

Key Indicators and Rankings

• Ease of Doing Business Index Rank: 58 (2013), up from 60 (2012)
• Region: Eastern Europe & Central Asia
• Income Category: Upper middle income
• Population: 9,473,000
• GNI per capita (US$): 5,830

The report evaluates 11 key areas affecting the business environment, including starting a business, construction permits, electricity access, property registration, credit availability, investor protection, tax compliance, cross-border trade, contract enforcement, insolvency resolution, and employment regulations.

Main Business Regulation Indicators

Key Areas of Analysis

Starting a Business

• Procedures: 5
• Time: 5 days
• Cost: 2.3% of income per capita
• Paid-in Minimum Capital: 0.0% of income per capita
• Reforms:
  • DB2008: Introduced a one-stop shop for company registration.
  • DB2009: Created a unified registry database, reduced registration time, and cut minimum capital requirement by half.
  • DB2010: Simplified registration formalities, abolished minimum capital, limited notary role, and removed company seal approval.
  • DB2013: Made starting a business more difficult by increasing registration and company seal costs.

Dealing with Construction Permits

• Rank: 30 (2013), up from 42 (2012)
• Procedures: 12
• Time: 130 days
• Cost: 24.8% of income per capita
• Best Performer: Hong Kong SAR, China (rank 1)

Getting Electricity

• Rank: 171 (2013), up from 173 (2012)
• Procedures: 7
• Time: 179 days
• Cost: 838.8% of income per capita
• Best Performer: Iceland (rank 1)

Registering Property

• Rank: 3 (2013), same as 2012
• Procedures: 2
• Time: 10 days
• Cost: 0.0% of property value
• Best Performer: Georgia (rank 1)

Getting Credit

• Rank: 104 (2013), up from 97 (2012)
• Procedures: 29
• Time: 275 days
• Cost: 23.4% of claim
• Best Performer: Luxembourg (rank 1)

Protecting Investors

• Rank: 82 (2013), up from 79 (2012)
• Extent of Disclosure Index: 7
• Director Liability Index: 1
• Ease of Shareholder Suits Index: 8
• Investor Protection Index: 5.3
• Best Performer: New Zealand (rank 1)

Paying Taxes

• Rank: 129 (2013), up from 158 (2012)
• Number of Payments: 10
• Time (hours per year): 338
• Best Performer: United Arab Emirates (rank 1)

Trading Across Borders

• Rank: 151 (2013), up from 154 (2012)
• Documents to Export: 9
• Time to Export (days): 15
• Cost to Export (US$ per container): 1,510
• Documents to Import: 10
• Time to Import (days): 30
• Cost to Import (US$ per container): 2,315
• Best Performer: Singapore (rank 1)

Enforcing Contracts

• Rank: 13 (2013), up from 14 (2012)
• Procedures: 29
• Time: 275 days
• Cost: 23.4% of claim
• Best Performer: Singapore (rank 1)

Resolving Insolvency

• Rank: 56 (2013), up from 42 (2012)
• Time: 3.0 years
• Cost: 22% of estate
• Best Performer: Japan (rank 1)

Key Findings

• Belarus has improved its ranking in several areas, such as starting a business, protecting investors, and resolving insolvency, but still lags behind many comparator economies.
• The report highlights the importance of streamlining procedures, reducing costs, and improving transparency in regulatory processes.
• The distance to frontier measure shows how far Belarus is from the best practices in each indicator, indicating potential for further reform.
• The ease of doing business index is based on the simple average of percentile rankings across 10 topics, with the employing workers topic excluded from the aggregate ranking but included in the economy profile.

Conclusion

Belarus has made some progress in simplifying business regulations, particularly in reducing the number of procedures and costs for starting a business. However, it still faces challenges in areas such as getting electricity, paying taxes, and resolving insolvency. The report serves as a valuable tool for policymakers to identify areas for reform and benchmark performance against other economies.