= Doing Business reform making it easier to do business.
= Change making it more difficult to do business.
Applies to women only.
Takes place simultaneously with previous procedure.
Applies to women only.
Takes place simultaneously with previous procedure.
Applies to women only.
Takes place simultaneously with previous procedure.
Note: If new commercial connections to the electricity grid were not issued in a given year, or if electricity is not provided during that period, the economy receives a “no practice” mark on the procedures, time and cost indicators. A “no practice” economy receives a score of 0 on the reliability of supply and transparency of tariff index regardless of the regulatory practices that are applicable to the reliability of supply and transparency of tariffs.
Applies to women only.
Takes place simultaneously with previous procedure.
Note: To score on the extent of shareholder rights, extent of ownership and control, and extent of corporate transparency indexes, economies must have or be part of an active stock exchange with at least 10 equity issuers offering their shares to the public. For economies that are part of a regional stock exchange, the protecting minority investors indicator set counts the total number of equity issuers listed on the regional stock exchange. State-owned enterprises and companies that issue only nonequity securities (for example, bonds) or shares without voting rights (for example, preferred shares without voting rights) are not counted.
Note: If an economy does not levy any taxes, the set of indicators in Paying Taxes are recorded as “no practice’.
Note: Even if the economy’s legal framework includes provisions related to insolvency proceedings (liquidation or reorganization), the economy receives 0 points for the strength of insolvency framework index, if time, cost and outcome indicators are recorded as “no practice.”