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Doing Business 2017: Summary for Guinea-Bissau

Core Content

Doing Business 2017 is a World Bank Group flagship report that evaluates the ease of doing business across 190 economies, focusing on regulatory reforms and their impact on economic performance. It measures 11 key areas in 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 provides both rankings and distance to frontier (DTF) scores, which show how close an economy is to the best regulatory practices.

For Guinea-Bissau, the report presents data for 2017 and compares it with 2016 and other comparator economies in the region and globally.

Main Points

• Ease of Doing Business Ranking (2017):

  • Guinea-Bissau: 172
  • Previous year (2016): 177
  • Change in rank: +5
  • DTF Score (2017): 41.63
  • DTF Score (2016): 40.86
  • Change in DTF: +0.77

• Key Business Areas and Performance:

• Dealing with Construction Permits:

  • Rank: 155 (2017), 163 (2016)
  • DTF Score: 56.55 (2017), 53.72 (2016)
  • Procedures: 11.0
  • Time: 116.0 days
  • Cost: 13.4% of warehouse value

• Getting Electricity:

  • Rank: 182 (2017), 183 (2016)
  • DTF Score: 28.64 (2017), 27.86 (2016)
  • Procedures: 7.0
  • Time: 455.0 days
  • Cost: 1519.8% of income per capita

• Registering Property:

  • Rank: 149 (2017), 150 (2016)
  • DTF Score: 47.81 (2017), 47.68 (2016)
  • Procedures: 8.0
  • Time: 51.0 days
  • Cost: 5.5% of property value

• Getting Credit:

  • Rank: 139 (2017), 134 (2016)
  • DTF Score: 30.00 (2017), 30.00 (2016)
  • Procedures: 46.0
  • Time: 208.0 hours per year
  • Cost: 45.5% of profit
  • Credit registry coverage: 0.1% of adults

• Protecting Minority Investors:

  • Rank: 137 (2017), 136 (2016)
  • DTF Score: 41.67 (2017), 41.67 (2016)
  • Strength of minority investor protection: 4.2
  • Extent of conflict of interest regulation: 4.7
  • Extent of shareholder governance: 3.7

• Paying Taxes:

  • Rank: 149 (2017), 147 (2016)
  • DTF Score: 56.08 (2017), 56.08 (2016)
  • Payments per year: 46.0
  • Time: 208.0 hours per year
  • Total tax rate: 45.5% of profit
  • Postfiling index: 48.4

• Trading Across Borders:

  • Rank: 153 (2017), 154 (2016)
  • DTF Score: 52.86 (2017), 52.86 (2016)
  • Time to export: 67 hours (border compliance), 60 hours (documentary compliance)
  • Cost to export: USD 677 (border compliance), USD 316 (documentary compliance)
  • Time to import: 72 hours (border compliance), 36 hours (documentary compliance)
  • Cost to import: USD 755 (border compliance), USD 384 (documentary compliance)

• Enforcing Contracts:

  • Rank: 164 (2017), 164 (2016)
  • DTF Score: 38.81 (2017), 38.81 (2016)
  • Time: 1715.0 days
  • Cost: 25.0% of claim
  • Quality of judicial processes: 8.0 (scale 0–18)

• Resolving Insolvency:

  • Rank: 169 (2017), 169 (2016)
  • DTF Score: 0.00 (2017), 0.00 (2016)
  • Recovery rate: 0.0 cents on the dollar
  • Time: No practice
  • Cost: No practice

Key Information

• The Doing Business 2017 report includes a gender dimension in four indicators: starting a business, registering property, enforcing contracts, and labor market regulation.
• It also introduces a new pilot indicator on selling to the government and expands coverage to include Somalia, bringing the total number of economies to 190.
• The DTF score is used to measure how close an economy is to the best regulatory practices, while the ease of doing business ranking shows how it compares with other economies.
• The report emphasizes that the business environment is not just about the number of procedures, but also the time and cost associated with each process.
• Guinea-Bissau is ranked as a low-income economy in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a GNI per capita of USD 590 and a population of 1,844,325.

Methodology and Limitations

• The report measures the business life cycle and includes 11 key indicators.
• The DTF score provides an absolute benchmark of how far an economy is from the best practices.
• Comparisons are based on standard assumptions and benchmarks.
• The methodology does not cover all aspects of the business environment, such as market proximity, infrastructure quality, property security, government transparency, macroeconomic conditions, or institutional strength.

Conclusion

The Doing Business 2017 report provides a comprehensive overview of the business environment in Guinea-Bissau, highlighting the challenges and opportunities for entrepreneurs. The data reveals that Guinea-Bissau still faces significant regulatory hurdles, particularly in paying taxes, trading across borders, and enforcing contracts. However, the report also shows that Guinea-Bissau has made some improvements, especially in starting a business and registering property. The DTF score and rank are useful tools for policy makers to identify areas for reform and track progress over time.