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Doing Business 2017: Azerbaijan Summary

Core Content

Doing Business 2017 is a World Bank Group flagship report that evaluates the regulatory environment for businesses across 190 economies. It measures the ease of doing business through 11 key indicators, 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 also introduces a gender dimension in several indicators and expands the scope to include Somalia.

For Azerbaijan, the report provides a detailed analysis of the business environment, highlighting the distance to frontier (DTF) scores and ease of doing business (EoDB) rankings. The DTF score measures how far an economy is from the best regulatory practices, while the EoDB ranking compares economies based on their overall performance.

Main Points

• EoDB Ranking: Azerbaijan's EoDB rank in 2017 is 65, a slight drop from 61 in 2016.
• Distance to Frontier (DTF) Score: Azerbaijan's DTF score is 67.99, showing minimal change from 67.84 in 2016.
• Key Indicators:
  • Starting a Business: Azerbaijan's rank is 5, with a DTF score of 97.74. It has 2 procedures for both men and women, taking 3 days and costing 1.3% of income per capita.
  • Dealing with Construction Permits: Azerbaijan's rank is 127, with a DTF score of 63.63. It involves 18 procedures, taking 203 days and costing 4.5% of warehouse value.
  • Getting Electricity: Azerbaijan's rank is 105, with a DTF score of 64.83. It requires 7 procedures, taking 69 days and costing 150.4% of income per capita.
  • Registering Property: Azerbaijan's rank is 22, with a DTF score of 82.52. It involves 3 procedures, taking 8.5 days and costing 0.2% of property value.
  • Getting Credit: Azerbaijan's rank is 118, with a DTF score of 40.00. It requires 6 procedures, taking 195 hours per year and has a total tax rate of 39.8% of profit.
  • Protecting Minority Investors: Azerbaijan's rank is 32, with a DTF score of 65.00. It scores 6.5 on the strength of minority investor protection index.
  • Paying Taxes: Azerbaijan's rank is 40, with a DTF score of 83.52. It involves 6 payments per year, taking 195 hours and has a total tax rate of 39.8% of profit.
  • Trading Across Borders: Azerbaijan's rank is 83, with a DTF score of 72.28. It takes 29 hours to export and 30 hours to import, with costs of USD 214 for export and USD 423 for import.
  • Enforcing Contracts: Azerbaijan's rank is 44, with a DTF score of 65.66. It takes 277 days and costs 18.5% of claim.
  • Resolving Insolvency: Azerbaijan's rank is 86, with a DTF score of 44.77. It takes 1.5 years and costs 12.0% of estate.

Key Information

• Comparators: The report compares Azerbaijan with other economies such as Bulgaria, Georgia, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Turkey, and global best performers like New Zealand, Singapore, and Luxembourg.
• Gender Component: The report now includes a gender dimension in several indicators, such as starting a business, registering property, and enforcing contracts, to reflect the different experiences of men and women in the business environment.
• Methodology: The report includes data up to June 1, 2016, except for paying taxes, which covers January–December 2015. It introduces a new postfiling process component in the paying taxes indicator and a pilot indicator on selling to the government.
• Limitations: The report does not include data on infrastructure quality, macroeconomic conditions, or institutional strength, as these are not directly measured by the Doing Business methodology.

Conclusion

The Doing Business 2017 report provides a comprehensive overview of the regulatory environment for businesses in Azerbaijan, highlighting both the challenges and the relative strengths in various areas. While Azerbaijan has made some progress in certain indicators, it still faces significant obstacles compared to global best performers. The introduction of the gender component and expanded data collection represent important improvements in understanding the full scope of business regulation. The report serves as a valuable tool for policymakers to identify areas for reform and improve the business environment.