2014年-世界发展银行全球_Doing_Business_Efficiency_Profile_2015___Malawi_94页_1mb

Summary of Doing Business 2015: Malawi

Core Content

The Doing Business 2015 report, published by the World Bank Group, evaluates the regulatory environment for businesses in 189 economies. It provides quantitative indicators across 11 areas of the business life cycle, including 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, and labor market regulation. The report aims to help policymakers identify regulatory bottlenecks and assess the effectiveness of reforms.

Key Changes in Methodology

• Ease of Doing Business ranking and topic-level rankings are now based on distance to frontier (DTF) scores.
• For 11 large economies, data from a second city were added to the dataset.
• Getting credit indicators were revised with updated indices: strength of legal rights (now 0–12) and depth of credit information (now 0–8). Only credit bureaus covering at least 5% of the adult population can score.
• The protecting investors indicator was renamed to protecting minority investors, with expanded scope to include shareholder rights in corporate governance.
• Resolving insolvency now includes an insolvency framework strength index.
• Paying taxes uses a nonlinear approach for the total tax rate component.
• Labor market regulation now focuses on the retail sector and includes labor disputes and worker benefits.

Malawi's Business Environment Overview

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Income category: Low income
• Population: 16,362,567
• GNI per capita (US$): 270
• DB2015 rank: 164
• DB2014 rank (adjusted): 163
• Change in rank: -1
• DB2015 DTF score: 49.2
• DB2014 DTF score: 47.2
• Change in DTF: +2

Key Indicators and Performance

Main Findings

• Malawi's ease of doing business ranking improved slightly from 163 to 164 in 2015.
• The distance to frontier score increased from 47.2 to 49.2, indicating a small move toward more efficient practices.
• Malawi faces significant challenges in starting a business, getting electricity, trading across borders, and enforcing contracts.
• The best performer for getting electricity is Korea, Rep., with a score of 99.83, while Malawi scores 35.78.
• Resolving insolvency remains a major challenge for Malawi, with a DTF score of 18.99, far below the best performer Finland (93.85).
• Paying taxes is relatively better than other indicators, with a DTF score of 71.37, but still far from the best performer United Arab Emirates (99.44).
• Protecting minority investors is another area where Malawi lags, with a DTF score of 45.00, while New Zealand (81.67) is the best performer.
• Labor market regulation is not included in the aggregate ease of doing business ranking, but data is presented in the economy profile.

Conclusion

Malawi's business environment, as assessed by the Doing Business 2015 report, shows some progress but still lags behind many comparator economies in key areas. The report highlights the importance of regulatory reforms in improving the ease of doing business, especially in areas like starting a business, getting electricity, and resolving insolvency. While the distance to frontier score has increased, Malawi still needs substantial improvements to reach the best practices observed in high-performing economies.