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Doing Business 2016: Seychelles Summary

Core Content

The Doing Business 2016 report evaluates the regulatory environment for small to medium-sized businesses in Seychelles and compares it with other economies. It measures and tracks regulatory quality and efficiency across 11 key 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 provides both rankings and distance to frontier (DTF) scores for Seychelles and comparator economies. Rankings reflect how an economy compares to others in terms of regulatory ease, while DTF scores show how far it is from the best regulatory practices.

Main Points

1. Economy Overview

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Income Category: High income
• Population: 91,526
• GNI per capita: $13,990
• DB2016 Rank: 95
• DB2015 Rank: 104 (adjusted for methodological changes)
• Change in Rank: +9
• DB2016 DTF Score: 61.05
• DB2015 DTF Score: 58.31
• Change in DTF: +2.74

2. Key Business Regulation Indicators

Starting a Business

• Rank (DB2016): 131
• DTF Score: 78.55
• Procedures: 9
• Time (days): 32
• Cost (% of income per capita): 14.2
• Comparator: New Zealand (rank 1, DTF 99.96)

Dealing with Construction Permits

• Rank (DB2016): 123
• DTF Score: 63.53
• Procedures: 17
• Time (days): 151
• Cost (% of warehouse value): 0.4
• Comparator: Singapore (rank 1, DTF 92.97)

Getting Electricity

• Rank (DB2016): 139
• DTF Score: 54.63
• Procedures: 6
• Time (days): 137
• Cost (% of income per capita): 385.0
• Comparator: Republic of Korea (rank 1, DTF 99.88)

Registering Property

• Rank (DB2016): 67
• DTF Score: 68.67
• Procedures: 4
• Time (days): 33
• Cost (% of property value): 7.0
• Comparator: New Zealand (rank 1, DTF 94.46)

Getting Credit

• Rank (DB2016): 109
• DTF Score: 40
• Procedures: N/A
• Time (hours per year): 85
• Total tax rate (% of profit): 30.1
• Comparator: New Zealand (rank 1, DTF 100)

Protecting Minority Investors

• Rank (DB2016): 105
• DTF Score: 50
• Strength of legal rights index (0-12): 2.0
• Depth of credit information index (0-8): 6.0
• Comparator: Singapore (rank 1, DTF 83.33)

Paying Taxes

• Rank (DB2016): 43
• DTF Score: 81.82
• Payments (number per month): 29
• Total tax rate (% of profit): 30.1
• Comparator: United Arab Emirates (rank 1, DTF 99.44)

Trading Across Borders

• Rank (DB2016): 86
• DTF Score: 71.54
• Time to export (hours): 84
• Cost to export (USD): 332
• Time to import (hours): 99
• Cost to import (USD): 341
• Comparator: Denmark (rank 1, DTF 100)

Enforcing Contracts

• Rank (DB2016): 138
• DTF Score: 49.39
• Time (days): 915
• Cost (% of claim): 15.4
• Comparator: Singapore (rank 1, DTF 84.91)

Resolving Insolvency

• Rank (DB2016): 66
• DTF Score: 61.05
• Comparator: New Zealand (rank 1, DTF 94.46)

Key Information

• Methodology Changes in 2016:

  • Added new indices for building regulation quality and judicial process efficiency.
  • Adjusted the focus of several indicators to reflect updated standards and practices.
  • The labor market regulation indicators are not included in the overall ease of doing business ranking but are presented in the economy profile.

• Comparative Analysis:

  • Seychelles performs better than most comparator economies in Sub-Saharan Africa but lags behind global leaders like New Zealand, Singapore, and the United Arab Emirates.
  • The DTF score helps identify the absolute distance to best practices in each area, while the ranking reflects relative performance.

• Limitations:

  • The report does not cover factors like proximity to large markets, infrastructure quality beyond electricity and trade, or macroeconomic conditions.
  • It focuses on a local limited liability company operating in the largest business city.

Conclusion

The Doing Business 2016 report highlights Seychelles' regulatory environment for businesses, showing it has improved in several areas but still faces challenges compared to global best practices. The DTF scores and rankings provide a clear benchmark for identifying regulatory strengths and weaknesses, aiding policymakers in making informed decisions to reform the business environment.