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Doing Business 2015: Greece Summary

Core Content

The Doing Business 2015 report evaluates the regulatory environment for small to medium-sized businesses across 189 economies, focusing on 11 key areas. Greece's performance in these areas is analyzed alongside comparator economies to highlight strengths and weaknesses in its business environment.

Main Indicators and Rankings

Key Findings

• Ease of Doing Business Rank: Greece ranked 61 in 2015, up from 65 in 2014, indicating some improvement in its regulatory environment.
• Distance to Frontier (DTF) Score: Greece's DTF score increased from 65 to 66.7, suggesting it is moving closer to the best practices in regulatory reform.
• Starting a Business: Greece has 5 procedures and takes 13 days, with a cost of 2.2% of income per capita. It ranks 52, significantly behind New Zealand (1).
• Dealing with Construction Permits: Greece has 18 procedures, takes 124 days, and costs 0.6% of warehouse value. It ranks 88, far behind Hong Kong SAR, China (1).
• Getting Electricity: Greece has 6 procedures, takes 62 days, and costs 69.7% of income per capita. It ranks 80, behind Korea, Rep. (1).
• Registering Property: Greece has 10 procedures, takes 20 days, and costs 4.9% of property value. It ranks 116, behind Georgia (1).
• Getting Credit: Greece has a DTF score of 50 and a strength of legal rights index of 3, lagging behind New Zealand (100).
• Protecting Minority Investors: Greece ranks 62, with a DTF score of 57.5, still behind New Zealand (81.67).
• Paying Taxes: Greece ranks 59, with a DTF score of 78.3, behind the United Arab Emirates (99.44).
• Trading Across Borders: Greece ranks 48, with a DTF score of 80.8, behind Singapore (96.47).
• Enforcing Contracts: Greece ranks 155, with a DTF score of 43.6, far behind Singapore (89.54).
• Resolving Insolvency: Greece ranks 52, with a DTF score of 55.98, behind Finland (93.85).

Methodology Changes in 2015

• The ease of doing business ranking and all topic-level rankings are based on distance to frontier scores.
• For 11 large economies, data for a second city is now included.
• The getting credit methodology was revised to increase the points in the strength of legal rights index from 10 to 12 and the depth of credit information index from 6 to 8.
• The protecting minority investors indicator set was renamed and expanded to include shareholder rights in corporate governance.
• The resolving insolvency indicator set was expanded to include the strength of the legal framework for insolvency.
• The paying taxes DTF score now uses a nonlinear approach for the total tax rate component.
• The employing workers indicator set was renamed to labor market regulation, focusing on the retail sector and including labor dispute regulations and worker benefits.

Conclusion

The Doing Business 2015 report provides a comprehensive overview of Greece's regulatory environment. While Greece has made some progress, it still lags behind many comparator economies in key areas such as starting a business, getting electricity, and resolving insolvency. The report highlights the importance of benchmarking against best practices and encourages further reforms to improve the business environment.