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Doing Business 2017: Tanzania Summary

Core Content

The Doing Business 2017 report by the World Bank Group provides an overview of the regulatory environment for businesses in Tanzania, focusing on 11 key areas that affect the ease of doing business. It evaluates the number of procedures, time, and cost involved in various business activities and compares Tanzania with other economies, including comparator countries in the region and global best performers.

Main Points

• Report Purpose: The report measures and tracks changes in regulations that affect small to medium-sized businesses, highlighting obstacles and strengths in business environments.
• Indicators Covered: The report includes 11 indicators such as 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.
• Methodology: The report uses a standardized methodology to compare economies, with data collected from 190 countries, including Tanzania. The indicators are based on the perspective of a local limited liability company in the largest business city.
• Gender Component: For the first time, the report includes a gender dimension in some indicators, measuring the differences in procedures, time, and cost for men and women entrepreneurs.
• Distance to Frontier (DTF) Score: This score indicates how close an economy is to the best regulatory practices in each indicator, with a scale from 0 (worst performance) to 100 (frontier).
• Ease of Doing Business Ranking: Economies are ranked from 1 to 190 based on their DTF scores, with lower numbers indicating easier business environments.

Key Information

Tanzania's Economy Profile (2017)

• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Income Category: Low income
• Population: 53,470,420
• GNI per capita (US$): 910
• DB2017 Rank: 132
• DB2016 Rank: 144 (adjusted for methodology and data changes)
• Change in Rank: +12
• DB2017 DTF Score: 54.48
• DB2016 DTF Score: 50.59
• Change in DTF Score: +3.89

Comparative Data

Dealing with Construction Permits

• DB2017 Rank: 136
• DB2016 Rank: 139
• Change in Rank: +3
• DTF Score: 61.69
• Procedures (number): 18.0
• Time (days): 205.0
• Cost (% of warehouse value): 5.3
• Best Performer (DB2017): 87.40 (New Zealand)

Getting Electricity

• DB2017 Rank: 87
• DB2016 Rank: 83
• Change in Rank: +4
• DTF Score: 70.52
• Procedures (number): 4.0
• Time (days): 109.0
• Cost (% of income per capita): 948.0
• Best Performer (DB2017): 99.88 (Korea, Rep.)

Registering Property

• DB2017 Rank: 132
• DB2016 Rank: 133
• Change in Rank: +1
• DTF Score: 51.37
• Procedures (number): 8.0
• Time (days): 67.0
• Cost (% of property value): 4.4
• Best Performer (DB2017): 94.46 (New Zealand)

Getting Credit

• DB2017 Rank: 44
• DB2016 Rank: 152
• Change in Rank: -108
• DTF Score: 65.00
• Procedures (number): 8.0
• Time (days): 195.0
• Cost (% of profit): 43.9
• Best Performer (DB2017): 100.00 (New Zealand)

Protecting Minority Investors

• DB2017 Rank: 145
• DB2016 Rank: 145
• Change in Rank: 0
• DTF Score: 40.00
• Best Performer (DB2017): 83.33 (New Zealand)

Paying Taxes

• DB2017 Rank: 154
• DB2016 Rank: 146
• Change in Rank: +8
• DTF Score: 54.13
• Payments (number per year): 53.0
• Time (hours per year): 195.0
• Cost (% of profit): 43.9
• Best Performer (DB2017): 99.44 (United Arab Emirates)

Trading Across Borders

• DB2017 Rank: 180
• DB2016 Rank: 180
• Change in Rank: 0
• DTF Score: 20.21
• Time to Export (Border compliance): 96 hours
• Cost to Export (Border compliance): $1160
• Best Performer (DB2017): 100.00 (10 Economies)

Enforcing Contracts

• DB2017 Rank: 59
• DB2016 Rank: 60
• Change in Rank: -1
• DTF Score: 61.66
• Time to Enforce (days): 515.0
• Cost (% of claim): 14.3
• Best Performer (DB2017): 84.15 (Korea, Rep.)

Resolving Insolvency

• DB2017 Rank: 100
• DB2016 Rank: 98
• Change in Rank: +2
• DTF Score: 41.04
• Time to Resolve (years): 3.0
• Recovery Rate (cents on the dollar): 21.1
• Best Performer (DB2017): 93.89 (Finland)

Conclusion

The report highlights that Tanzania has made some progress in improving its business environment, particularly in starting a business and registering property. However, it still faces significant challenges in areas such as getting credit, paying taxes, and resolving insolvency. The inclusion of a gender component in several indicators adds a new dimension to the analysis, revealing potential disparities in the regulatory environment for men and women entrepreneurs. The DTF score provides a benchmark for how close Tanzania is to the best regulatory practices globally, while the ease of doing business ranking shows its relative position compared to other economies. Overall, Tanzania remains in the lower half of the rankings, indicating the need for continued regulatory reforms to improve its business climate.