Foreword -- Overview -- About Doing Business -- Reforming the Business Environment in 2016/17 -- Case studies: Starting a business: transparency of information at business registries; Dealing with construction permits: private sector participation in construction regulation; Registering property: using information to curb corruption; Resolving insolvency: the challenges of successfully implementing insolvency reforms -- References -- Data notes -- Distance to frontier and ease of doing business ranking -- Summaries of doing business reforms in 2016/17 -- Country tables -- Labor market regulation -- Acknowledgments.
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Summary
Doing Business 2018: Reforming to Create Jobs, a World Bank Group flagship publication, isn an annual reports focusing on measuring the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 190 economies--from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe--and over time.
