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Doing Business 2015: Cambodia Summary

Core Content

The Doing Business 2015 report evaluates the ease of doing business in Cambodia by analyzing regulatory environments across 11 key areas in the business life cycle. It provides a comparative ranking of Cambodia against other economies and includes a detailed analysis of the regulatory landscape, helping policymakers understand areas for improvement.

Key Indicators and Rankings

Main Points

• Ease of Doing Business (EDB) Ranking: Cambodia ranked 135th in 2015, a slight drop from 134th in 2014.
• Distance to Frontier (DTF) Score: Cambodia's DTF score was 55.3 in 2015, showing a minor improvement from 55.1 in 2014.
• Key Areas of Challenge:
  • Starting a Business: Requires 11 procedures, taking 101 days and costing 139.5% of income per capita.
  • Dealing with Construction Permits: Requires 20 procedures, taking 652 days and costing 6.7% of warehouse value.
  • Getting Electricity: Requires 4 procedures, taking 168 days and costing 2,495.4% of income per capita.
  • Registering Property: Requires 7 procedures, taking 56 days and costing 4.4% of property value.
  • Enforcing Contracts: Requires 44 procedures, taking 483 days and costing 103.4% of claim.
  • Resolving Insolvency: Takes 6 years and costs 28% of estate, with a recovery rate of 8.2 cents per dollar.
• Comparative Performance:
  • Cambodia performs poorly compared to regional economies like China, Indonesia, and Thailand, and is far behind the best performers such as New Zealand and Singapore.
  • The report highlights that Cambodia lags significantly in areas such as credit access, minority investor protection, and contract enforcement.

Key Methodological Changes in Doing Business 2015

• Ranking Methodology: EDB rankings and topic-level rankings are now based on distance to frontier scores.
• Data Coverage: For 11 large economies (e.g., Bangladesh, Brazil, China, etc.), data for a second city are now included.
• Credit Access: The methodology for the strength of legal rights index and depth of credit information index was revised, increasing the maximum score from 10 to 12 and 6 to 8, respectively.
• Investor Protection: The protecting investors indicator was renamed to protecting minority investors, and the scope was expanded to include corporate governance and shareholder rights.
• Insolvency Resolution: A new strength of insolvency framework index was introduced.
• Paying Taxes: The calculation of the DTF score for paying taxes was updated to use a nonlinear approach.
• Labor Market Regulation: The indicator was renamed from employing workers to labor market regulation, focusing on the retail sector instead of manufacturing and including regulations on labor disputes and worker benefits.

Conclusion

The Doing Business 2015 report underscores that Cambodia faces significant challenges in creating a favorable business environment. While some minor improvements were noted in certain areas, the country remains far from the best performers in terms of regulatory efficiency. The report serves as a guide for policymakers to identify regulatory bottlenecks and implement reforms to enhance the ease of doing business.