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Acknowledgments Doing Business would not be possible without the expertise and generous input of a network of more than 9,600 local partners, including legal experts, business consultants, accountants, freight forwarders, government officials and other professionals routinely administering or advising on the relevant legal and regulatory requirements in the 185 economies covered. Contact details for local partners are available on the Doing Business website at http://www.doingbusiness.org. The online service of the Doing Business database is managed by Andres Baquero Franco, Varun Doiphode, Graeme Littler, Kunal Patel, Mohan Pathapati, Vinod Thottikkatu and Hashim Zia under the direction of Preeti Endlaw. The Doing Business 2013 report media and marketing strategy is managed by Nadine Ghannam. The events and road-show strategy is managed by Sushmitha Malini Narsiah. The team is grateful for valuable comments provided by colleagues across the World Bank Group and for the guidance of World Bank Group Executive Directors. It would especially like to acknowledge the comments and guidance of Aart C. Kraay. Comments were also received from Ali Abukumail, Hormoz Aghdaey, Pedro Alba, Alejandro Alvarez de la Campa, Inger Anderson, Nabila Assaf, Simon Bell, Najy Benhassine, Alexander Berg, Tony Bigio, Christopher Bleakley, Frank Fulgence K. Byamugisha, Otaviano Canuto, Kevin Carey, Guang Zhe Chen, Pamela Cox, Boris Divjak, Grahame Dixie, Delores Elliot, Fabrizio Fraboni, Jose Maria Garrido, Frederico Gil Sander, Indermit S. Gill, Eva M. Gutierrez, Mary HallwardDriemeier, Marek Hanusch, Caroline

Heider, Vijay Iyer, Karina Izaguirre, Melissa Johns, Lisa Kaestner, Arvo Kuddo, Sumir Lal, Giuseppe Larossi, Anne-Marie Leroy, Oscar Madeddu, Marie Francoise Marie-Nelly, Andres Federico Martinez, Philippe De Meneval, Riz Mokal, Marcin Piatkowski, Mohammad Zia M. Qureshi, Fanja Sahondraniaina Ravoavy, Susan Razzaz, Maria Camila Roberts, Michal Rutkowski, Shalini Sankaranarayanan, Massimiliano Santini, Jordan Schwartz, Peter Sheerin, Victoria Stanley, Rodrigo de Jesus Suescun, Mark Sundberg, Stoyan Tenev, Axel van Trotsenburg, Mahesh Uttamchandani, Tunc Uyanic, Jan Walliser, Wendy Jo Werner and Grace M. Yabrudy. The paying taxes project was conducted in collaboration with PwC, led by John Preston. The development of the getting electricity indicators was ﬁnanced by the Norwegian Trust Fund. The APEC Secretariat commented on the APEC case study. Jonathan Bailey, Omowunmi Ladipo and César Chaparro Yedro commented on the Rwanda case study. Aart C. Kraay and Alejandro Ponce commented on the case study on the transparency of business regulation. Alison Strong copyedited the manuscript. Corporate Visions, Inc. designed the report and the graphs. Quotations in this report are from Doing Business local partners unless otherwise indicated. The names of those wishing to be acknowledged individually are listed below. The global and regional contributors listed are ﬁrms that have completed multiple surveys in their various offices around the world.

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Doing Business 2013

Published on Oct 23, 2012Business

World Bank Publications

Tenth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 185 economies, Doing Business 2013 measures regulations affecting 11 areas of everyday business activity: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, closing a business, and employing workers. The report updates all indicators as of June 1, 2012, ranks economies on their overall “ease of doing business”, and analyzes reforms to business regulation – identifying which economies are strengthening their business environment the most. The Doing Business reports illustrate how reforms in business regulations are being used to analyze economic outcomes for domestic entrepreneurs and for the wider economy. Doing Business is a flagship product by the World Bank and IFC that garners worldwide attention on regulatory barriers to entrepreneurship.