Name: Doing Business
Creator: World Bank Group
Published: 2010-07-21

The BOOST initiative is a Bank-wide collaborative effort launched in 2010 to facilitate access to budget data and promote effective use for improved decision-making processes, transparency and accountability.

BOOST - Public Expenditure Database

This collection contains datasets that may be useful for analysis, response or modelling for the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Related Datasets

The Data360 initiative aims to integrate high-value data and knowledge curated in the Bank’s verticals into a user-centered data platform. 

Data 360

The Development Data Partnership platform facilitates formation of public-private partnerships for solving development challenges with technology. Specifically, the Development Data Partnership Working Group organizes opportunities for WBG staff to work with technology companies who offer pro-bono data and resources.

Development Data Partnership

This collection contains discrepancy indexes for UN COMTRADE data that aims to capture both the frequency of missed reporting and its impact on overall recorded trade value

Discrepancy Index

A collection of datasets produced through partnership between the World Bank and the European Space Agency (ESA) Earth Observation for Sustainable Development (EO4SD) initiative.

Earth Observation for Sustainable Development

Open data and analytics for a sustainable energy future.

Energy Data Info

This collection features datasets to support building policies, institutions and investments for inclusive and sustainable growth.

Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions

Project Page: https://worldbank.github.io/GEEST/README.html 

As part of the “Geospatial Assessment of Women Employment and Business Opportunities in the Energy Sector” project, open-source Gender-related spatial data was collected for 31 Small Island Developing States (SIDS) across the globe, resulting in curated and thoroughly documented geodatabases (GDBs) that are now ready to be explored! 
Fifty-nine spatial layers were identified and then researched for each country, covering the following categories: Demographics and Population | Renewable Energy | Energy Access | Education | Jobs and Finance | Digital Inclusion | Transportation | Safety | Amenities | Climate/Earth | Law/Policy/Government. 


However, not every country GDB contains all 59 data layers, as this was dependent on the availability of open-source data in each SIDS. Users are encouraged to check the accompanying metadata excel file for more information on the datasets in each GDB, the vintage, and the

Gender Spatial Data - Small Island States

A collection of datasets that contain geospatial data. These datasets have one or more resources in a geospatial data format.

Geospatial Datasets

Collection of useful datasets from IMF made available to Bank staff via <a href=http://mydatabank.worldbank.org>myDataBank</a>

IMF Dataset

A collection of datasets to help finance the global infrastructure gap.

Infrastructure Finance Datasets

Data and dataset subscriptions managed by the Library Network on agriculture, business, economics, energy, finance, health, risk, water, and more..

Library Databases

The LinkedIn-World Bank partnership offers data to help governments and researchers understand rapidly evolving labor markets with detailed and dynamic data. It allows leaders to benchmark and compare labor markets across the world; analyze skills, occupations, migration, and industries; and leverage real-time data to make policy changes.Visualizations for many of these data are available at <a href=https://linkedindata.worldbank.org/>linkedindata.worldbank.org</a>

LinkedIn Data for Development

Collection of merchandise trade data available to World Bank staff.

Merchandise Trade Data

This collection includes datasets associated with research organized under the Bank, <a href=http://prwp.worldbank.org target='_blank' title='Opens in a new window'>Policy Research Working Papers</a>.

Policy Research Working Papers

This collection contains data on disaster and climate risk assessments curated by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR).

Risk Data Library

This collection presents software tools and models developed by the World Bank to support monitoring, planning, programming and the economic evaluation of roads and highways works.

Road Software Tools

This spatial database, a product of the South Asia Region Chief Economist's (SARCE) Office, presents data collected from official sources and harmonized into different spatial levels. Data includes economic and environmental data across 12 topic areas, and includes data from four countries in South Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal) for both 2001 and 2011.

SARCE Spatial Database

A collection of country Small Area Estimation (SAE) and Poverty Mapping that contains papers, shapefiles, and datasets produced through partnerships between the World Bank and country statistics offices.

Small area estimates / Poverty mapping

This collection consists of datasets compiled and created by the World Bank Data Lab in response to a request by the Syria Economic Monitor Team to explore alternative data sources to better understand changing trends in trade and economic activity, focusing on: surface cross-border transport routes, changes in observed agricultural production, observed nighttime lights, and reported conflict.

Syria Economic Monitor

A collection of relevant datasets to support operations in Ukraine.

Ukraine datasets

Catalogue lists all the data produced under the partnership contracts between the World Bank Group and the European Space Agency

World Bank (WBG) - European Space Agency (ESA) Database

A collection of datasets to help achieve universal access to reliable and fast internet services for all.

World Bank Digital Development Data

A collection of datasets to help achieve sustainable energy for all.

World Bank Energy Datasets

A collection of datasets to help achieve sustainable mobility for all.

World Bank Transport Data

From Data to a Water-Secure World for All. World Bank Water Data surrounding the three pillars of Sustain Water Resources, Deliver Services and Build Resilience.

World Bank Water Data

The World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives explores the tremendous potential of the changing data landscape to improve the lives of poor people, while also acknowledging its potential to open back doors that can harm individuals, businesses, and societies. To address this tension between the helpful and harmful potential of data, this Report calls for a new social contract that enables the use and reuse of data to create economic and social value, ensures equitable access to that value, and fosters trust that data will not be misused in harmful ways. The data used in the WDR2021 are curated as a collection here.

World Development Report 2021

The World Development Report 2022: Finance for an Equitable Recovery examines the central role of finance in the economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. In doing so, it looks into the consequences of the crisis most likely to affect emerging economies and proposes a set of policies to mitigate the interconnected financial risks stemming from the pandemic and to steer economies toward a sustainable and equitable recovery. The data used in the WDR2022 are curated as a collection here.

World Development Report 2022

The World Settlement Footprint Collection includes country datasets describing the evolution of the built-area across the globe at a ~30m resolution.

World Settlement Footprint

Complex state ownership, competition, and firm performance–Russian evidence

Does Using Latest Technologies Impact New Venture Innovation? A Contingency‐Based View of Institutional Environments

Gender gap in self‐employment: The role of risk attitudes

La decisión de invertir en destinos turísticos. Influencia de la estrategia comunicacional: caso Villa La Angostura, Patagonia Argentina

Loan growth and risk: evidence from microfinance institutions in Africa

Pacing for Renewable Energy Development: The Developmental State in Taiwans Offshore Wind Power

Transaction Costs and Economic Growth under Common Legal System: State-Level Evidence from Mexico

Economic freedom and tax revenue performance in sub-Saharan Africa

From the Plan to the Market and Back—The Organisational Transformation of the Russian Defence Industry

The Role of Labor Market Flexibility in the Job Matching Process in India: An Analysis of the Matching Function Using State-Level Panel Data

Bad science: International organizations and the indirect power of global benchmarking

Developing entrepreneurship in Africa: investigating critical resource challenges

Business model design and firm performance: Evidence of interactive effects from a developing economy

A new index to measure ease of doing business at the sub-national level: Empirical findings from Indonesia

Economic sustainability? Examining the linkages and leakages between agriculture and hotels in B hutan

Measuring potential efficiency gains from mergers of Italian first instance courts through nonparametric model

Measuring ease of doing business in Indias sub-national economies: a novel index

Administrative corruption and its effects on Russian entrepreneurs: a regional aspect

Uma reforma dual e modular da tributação sobre o consumo no Brasil

Institutions and entrepreneurial activity: The interactive influence of misaligned formal and informal institutions

Sources of Financing and Firm Growth: Evidence from Ethiopia

The impact of foreign-owned enterprises in low-income economies

Firm-level trust in emerging markets: the moderating effect on the institutional strength-corruption relationship in Mexico and Peru

Survival practices of indigenous construction firms in Nigeria

Reducing the Hellenic Financial Crisis to Its Root Cause: A Cybernetic Analysis

Transgender employment and entrepreneurialism in Vietnam

Adjusting policy implementation frameworks for non-pluralist conditions: A case study of Ukraines single tax for small business

Ukraine And Georgia In The International Rankings “Doing Business” And “Paying Taxes” Under The Conditions Of Activation Of Eu-Integration Processes

The woman entrepreneur in Albania: an exploratory study on motivation, problems and success factors

Policy for agriculture and horticulture in Rwanda: a different political economy?

Business failure factors in Iranian SMEs: Do successful and unsuccessful entrepreneurs have different viewpoints?

Profit orientation of microfinance institutions and provision of financial capital to business start-ups

Grease or sand in the wheels of commerce? Firm level evidence on corruption and SMEs

Investor protection and dividend policy: The case of Islamic and conventional banks

The post-crisis growth slowdown in emerging economies and the role of structural reforms

Doing business in Ukraine–multinational companies in the trap of regional institutions?

The engagement of entrepreneurial firms with universities: Network formation, innovation and resilience

Chinas economic rise: Implications for ASEAN trade flows

Towards a new measure of a countrys competitiveness: applying canonical correlation

Evaluating the cross-national transferability of policies: a conceptual framework

Capacity and capability building for national HRD: A multi-level conceptual framework

The determinants of location specific choice: small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries

The Role of Institutions in Economic Development

The role of entrepreneurship in regional development strategies (based on the Polish National Strategy of Regional Development 2010-2020)

EXTERNAL BUSINESS ENVIRONEMENT PROBLEMS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN REZEKNE CITY

Public administration reform and its implications for foreign petroleum companies in Kazakhstan

Legal empowerment of informal workers: Formalizing street vending as a tool for poverty reduction

Digital entrepreneurship in a resource-scarce context: A focus on entrepreneurial digital competencies

Trends and contradictions of factors development affecting formation of geo-economic multipolarity

The Business Environment in CEE Countries: Current Challenges And Perspectives

The Brazilian Life Science Industry: Advances and Challenges

developMent of SMall and MediuM-SiZed regional enterpriSeS: creation of priority areaS (the caSe of SverdlovSk region)

The role of house price indices in managing the integration of finance and housing markets in the European Union

Does Judge Turnover Affect Judicial Performance? Evidence from Italian Court Records

Impacts of Risk Perceptions on Foreign Direct Investment in Energy Generation and Transmission Projects in Russia

2018 WTO Trade Policy Review of Malaysia

Corruption and the business environment in Vietnam: Implications from an empirical study

Do entrepreneurs from institutionally distinct countries apply different decision logic when internationalizing their companies? A multiple-case analysis

Economic Globalisation and Youth Unemployment–Evidence from African countries

Having It Both Ways: Can Latin American Spend More Money on Innovation and Reduce Income Inequality?

Protecting the entrepreneurial poor: A human rights approach

The relevance of coordinated regional trade logistics for the implementation of regional free trade area of Africa

Trade liberalization, firm entry, and income inequality

Controlling opportunism in the wine industry: the role of contract monitoring and contract incentives

The use of quantitative methods in labour law research: an assessment and reformulation

Assessing the Impact of WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement on Omans Economy

HOW BARRIERS INFLUENCE FIRMSSEARCH STRATEGIES AND INNOVATIVE PERFORMANCE

Drivers of training and talent development: insights from oil and gas MNCs in Nigeria

Benchmarking performance of governance quality in Indian states using MCDM techniques

Logistic services in the Caribbean region: An analysis of collaboration, innovation capabilities and process improvement

Women entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa: A review of knowledge areas and research gaps

Factors affecting trade in services: evidence from panel data

The Demand for Reproductive Health Care

How large is Vietnams informal economy?

Small entrepreneurship development in Belarus: Sociological retrospective and perspectives

Vietnamese industrial development: following Washington on the road to Beijing

Challenges of achieving social upgrading in Bangladeshs apparel industry

Development built on crony capitalism? The case of Dangote Cement

The effect of export market-oriented culture on export performance: Evidence from a Sub-Saharan African economy

Kirznerian and Schumpeterian entrepreneurship in Trinidad and Tobago

Considerations on the land management system approach in Turkey by the experiences of a case study

Ownership concentration and firm performance in Indian firms: does investor protection quality matter?

Alliances and survival of new biopharmaceutical ventures in the wake of the global financial crisis

The impact of entrepreneurship on knowledge economy in Africa

Psychological training for entrepreneurs to take action: Contributing to poverty reduction in developing countries

Shedding light on the shadow economy: a nighttime light approach

Statistics versus livelihoods: questioning Rwandas pathway out of poverty

Drivers of firm formalization in Vietnam: an attention theory explanation

Correlates of tax compliance of small and medium size businesses in Cameroon

Innovation and firm-performance correlations: the case of central and south eastern Europe countries

Where institutional logics of corporate governance collide: Overstatement of compliance in a developing country, Bangladesh

Realising Rights in Timor-Leste

Out of the border labyrinth: an assessment of trade facilitation initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean

Location strategies and value creation of international mergers and acquisitions

10 Business angels in emerging economies: Southeast Asia

Minimising corruption in Myanmar: an impossible dream?

Why Is I taly Doing So Badly?

Corporate governance and corporate performance: financial crisis (2008)

Investment prospects priority in the policy of stable economic growth in Great Britain

On the role of investment in the socio-economic development of territories

The time for filing and service captures the time from the moment plaintiff decides to sue until defendant is served.

Enforcing contracts: Filing and service (days)

The procedures to enforce contracts records the list of procedural steps compiled for each economy that traces the chronology of a commercial dispute before the relevant court. A procedure is defined as any interaction, required by law or commonly carried out in practice, between the parties or between them and the judge or court officer. The component indicator is computed based on the methodology in the DB04-15 studies.

Enforcing contracts: Procedures (number)

The score for procedures to enforce contracts benchmarks economies with respect to the regulatory best practice on the indicator. The score is indicated on a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 represents the worst regulatory performance and 100 the best regulatory performance, and is computed based on the methodology in the DB04-15 studies.

Enforcing contracts: Procedures (number) - Score

The score for quality of judicial processes index benchmarks economies with respect to the regulatory best practice on the indicator. The score is indicated on a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 represents the worst regulatory performance and 100 the best regulatory performance, and is computed based on the methodology in the DB17-20 studies.

Enforcing contracts: Quality of the judicial processes index (0-19) (DB17-20 methodology) - Score

The quality of judicial processes index is the sum of the court structure and proceedings, case management, court automation and alternative dispute resolution. The index is computed based on the methodology in the DB17-20 studies.

Enforcing contracts: Quality of the judicial processes index (0-18) (DB17-20 methodology)

The score for time to enforce contracts benchmarks economies with respect to the regulatory best practice on the indicator. The score is indicated on a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 represents the worst regulatory performance and 100 the best regulatory performance.

Enforcing contracts: Time (days) - Score

The ease of doing business score is the simple average of the scores for each of the Doing Business topics: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency. The score is computed based on the methodology in the DB17-20 studies for topics that underwent methodology updates.

Global: Ease of doing business score (DB17-20 methodology)

Ease of doing business ranks economies from 1 to 190, with first place being the best. A high ranking (a low numerical rank) means that the regulatory environment is conducive to business operation. The index averages the country's percentile rankings on 10 topics covered in the World Bank's Doing Business. The ranking on each topic is the simple average of the percentile rankings on its component indicators.

Rank: Ease of doing business index (1=most business-friendly regulations)

The liability and insurance regimes index evaluates the stringency of latent defect liability and insurance regimes. It has two components: (i) whether any parties involved in the construction process are held legally liable for latent defects such as structural flaws or problems in the building once it is in use; (ii) whether any party involved in the construction process is legally required to obtain a latent defect liability or decennial (10 years) liability insurance policy to cover possible structural flaws or problems in the building once it is in use. The index is computed based on the methodology in the DB16-20 studies.

Dealing with construction permits: Liability and insurance regimes index (0-2) (DB16-20 methodology)

The professional certifications index evaluates professional certi?cation requirements. It has two components: (i) the qualification requirements of the professional responsible for verifying that the architectural plans or drawings are in compliance with the building regulations; and (ii) the qualification requirements of the professional who conducts the technical inspections during construction. The index is computed based on the methodology in the DB16-20 studies.

Dealing with construction permits: Professional certifications index (0-4) (DB16-20 methodology)

The cost records all official costs associated with completing the procedures to legally build a warehouse, including the costs associated with obtaining land use approvals and preconstruction design clearances; receiving inspections before, during and after construction; obtaining utility connections; and registering the warehouse at the property registry. It is calculated as a percentage of the warehouse value. Nonrecurring taxes required for the completion of the warehouse project are also recorded. Sales taxes (such as value added tax) or capital gains taxes are not recorded. Nor are deposits that must be paid up front and are later refunded.

Dealing with construction permits: Cost (% of Warehouse value)

The score for cost benchmarks economies with respect to the regulatory best practice on the indicator. The score ranges from 0 to 100, where 0 represents the worst regulatory performance and 100 the best regulatory performance.

Dealing with construction permits: Cost (% of Warehouse value) - Score

The score for dealing with construction permits is the simple average of the scores for each of the component indicators: the procedures, time, cost to deal with construction permits, as well as the building quality control index that evaluate the quality of building regulations, the strength of quality control and safety mechanisms, liability and insurance regimes and professional certification requirements. The score is computed based on the methodology in the DB06-15 studies.

Dealing with construction permits (DB06-15 methodology) - Score

The quality of building regulations index evaluates the accessibility and transparency of building regulations. It has two components: (i) whether building regulations are easily accessible; and (ii) whether the requirements for obtaining a building permit are clearly specified. The index is computed based on the methodology in the DB16-20 studies.

Dealing with construction permits: Quality of building regulations index (0-2) (DB16-20 methodology)

The quality control after construction index evaluates quality control after the construction process. It has two components: (i) whether a final inspection is mandated by law to verify that the building was built in accordance with the approved plans and existing building regulations; and (ii) whether the final inspection is implemented in practice. The index is computed based on the methodology in the DB16-20 studies.

Dealing with construction permits: Quality control after construction index (0-3) (DB16-20 methodology)

The ranking of economies on the ease of dealing with construction permits is determined by sorting their scores for dealing with construction permits.

Rank: Dealing with construction permits (1=most business-friendly regulations)

The score for time benchmarks economies with respect to the regulatory best practice on the indicator. The score ranges from 0 to 100, where 0 represents the worst regulatory performance and 100 the best regulatory performance.

Dealing with construction permits: Time (days)  - Score

The total score for getting credit is the sum of the strength of legal rights index and the depth of credit information index, based on the methodology in the DB05-14 studies.

Getting Credit total score (DB05-14 methodology)

The score for getting credit benchmarks economies with respect to the regulatory best practice on the indicator set. The score is indicated on a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 represents the worst regulatory performance and 100 the best regulatory performance, and is computed based on the methodology in the DB15-20 studies.

Getting credit (DB15-20 methodology) - Score

The total score for getting credit is the sum of the strength of legal rights index and the depth of credit information index, based on the methodology in the DB15-20 studies.

Getting Credit total score (DB15-20 methodology)

The score for getting credit benchmarks economies with respect to the regulatory best practice on the indicator set. The score is indicated on a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 represents the worst regulatory performance and 100 the best regulatory performance, and is computed based on the methodology in the DB05-14 studies.

Doing Business

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