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Doing Business 2017: Sri Lanka Summary

Core Content

The Doing Business 2017 report, published by the World Bank Group, evaluates the regulatory environment for businesses across 190 economies, including Sri Lanka. It focuses on 11 key areas of business regulation and tracks changes over time to help identify effective reforms and understand the challenges faced by entrepreneurs.

The report measures two main indicators: the Distance to Frontier (DTF) score, which reflects how close an economy is to the best regulatory practices, and the Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) ranking, which compares economies based on their overall regulatory environment. These indicators are used to analyze economic outcomes and guide policy reforms.

Main Points

1. Economic Profile of Sri Lanka

• Region: South Asia
• Income Category: Lower middle income
• Population: 20,966,000
• GNI per capita (US$): 3,800
• DB2017 Rank: 110
• DB2016 Rank: 109
• Change in Rank: -1
• DB2017 DTF: 58.79
• DB2016 DTF: 58.14
• Change in DTF: +0.65

2. Key Indicators and Performance

3. Key Methodological Changes in 2017

• Expanded paying taxes indicator to include postfiling processes (e.g., tax refunds, audits, appeals).
• Added a gender dimension to three of the indicators: starting a business, registering property, and enforcing contracts.
• New pilot indicator on selling to the government.
• First-time inclusion of Somalia in the report, increasing the total number of economies to 190.

4. Business Environment Insights

• Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) ranking provides a relative comparison between economies.
• Distance to Frontier (DTF) score measures the absolute distance to the best regulatory practices, helping to understand the magnitude of regulatory reforms.
• The DTF score allows for tracking progress over time, while the EoDB ranking shows relative improvement or decline compared to other economies.

5. Gender Component

• The report now measures the business processes for both men and women.
• For starting a business, the number of procedures and time remain the same for both genders.
• Registering property includes a gender-specific component measuring women's ability to use, own, and transfer property.
• Enforcing contracts includes a measure of the equal evidentiary weight of women's testimony in court.

Key Information

• The data for this report is current as of June 1, 2016, except for the paying taxes indicators, which cover January–December 2015.
• Comparative data is provided for other economies in South Asia and globally.
• The report does not include labor market regulation in the aggregate EoDB ranking, but presents the data separately.
• The methodology has limitations, as it does not account for factors such as market proximity, infrastructure quality (except for electricity and trade), property security, and macroeconomic conditions.
• Policy makers can use the report to understand the regulatory environment and identify areas for improvement.

Conclusion

The Doing Business 2017 report provides a comprehensive analysis of the regulatory environment in Sri Lanka, highlighting both the challenges and strengths in business-related processes. It emphasizes the importance of tracking changes in regulations and offers a gender dimension to better understand the impact on different groups. The report serves as a valuable tool for policy reforms aimed at improving the ease of doing business in the country.