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Doing Business Regional Profile 2012Doing business sheds light on how easy
 or difficult it is for a local entrepreneur to open and run
 a small to medium-size business when complying with relevant
 regulations. It measures and tracks changes in regulations
 affecting 10 areas in the life cycle of a business: starting
 a business, dealing with construction permits, getting
 electricity, registering property, getting credit,
 protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders,
 enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency. In a series of
 annual reports doing business presents quantitative
 indicators on business regulations and the protection of
 property rights that can be compared across 183 economies,
 from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, over time. This economy
 profile presents the doing business indicators for
 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). To allow useful
 comparison, it also provides data for other selected
 economies (comparator economies) for each indicator. The
 data in this report are current as of June 1, 2011 (except
 for the paying taxes indicators, which cover the period
 January-December 2010).
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Doing Business 2014 Regional Profile : European UnionThis regional profile presents the Doing
 Business indicators for economies in European Union (EU). It
 also shows the regional average, the best performance
 globally for each indicator and data for the following
 comparator regions: East Asia and the Pacific, Europe and
 Central Asia, Middle East and North Africa, Latin America,
 and OECD High Income. The data in this report are current as
 of June 1, 2013, except for the paying taxes indicators,
 which cover the period January to December 2012. Regional
 Doing Business reports capture differences in business
 regulations and their enforcement across countries in a
 single region. They provide data on the ease of doing
 business, rank each location, and recommend reforms to
 improve performance in each of the indicator areas. The
 report sheds light on how easy or difficult it is for a
 local entrepreneur to open and run a small to medium-size
 business when complying with relevant regulations. It
 measures and tracks changes in regulations affecting 11
 areas in the life cycle of a business: starting a business,
 dealing with construction permits, getting electricity,
 registering property, getting credit, protecting investors,
 paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts,
 resolving insolvency and employing workers. Doing Business
 presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and
 the protection of property rights that can be compared
 across 189 economies, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, over
 time. The data set covers 47 economies in Sub-Saharan
 Africa, 33 in Latin America and the Caribbean, 25 in East
 Asia and the Pacific, 25 in Eastern Europe and Central Asia,
 20 in the Middle East and North Africa and 8 in South Asia,
 as well as 31 OECD high-income economies. The indicators are
 used to analyze economic outcomes and identify what reforms
 have worked, where and why.
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Doing Business 2014 Regional Profile : Asia-Pacific Economic CooperationThis regional profile presents the Doing
 Business indicators for economies in Asia-Pacific Economic
 Cooperation (APEC). It also shows the regional average, the
 best performance globally for each indicator and data for
 the following comparator regions: East Asia and the Pacific,
 European Union, Latin America, OECD High Income and South
 Asia. The data in this report are current as of June 1,
 2013, except for the paying taxes indicators, which cover
 the period January to December 2012. Regional Doing Business
 reports capture differences in business regulations and
 their enforcement across countries in a single region. They
 provide data on the ease of doing business, rank each
 location, and recommend reforms to improve performance in
 each of the indicator areas. The report sheds light on how
 easy or difficult it is for a local entrepreneur to open and
 run a small to medium-size business when complying with
 relevant regulations. It measures and tracks changes in
 regulations affecting 11 areas in the life cycle of a
 business: starting a business, dealing with construction
 permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting
 credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across
 borders, enforcing contracts, resolving insolvency and
 employing workers. Doing Business presents quantitative
 indicators on business regulations and the protection of
 property rights that can be compared across 189 economies,
 from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, over time. The data set covers
 47 economies in Sub-Saharan Africa, 33 in Latin America and
 the Caribbean, 25 in East Asia and the Pacific, 25 in
 Eastern Europe and Central Asia, 20 in the Middle East and
 North Africa and 8 in South Asia, as well as 31 OECD
 high-income economies. The indicators are used to analyze
 economic outcomes and identify what reforms have worked,
 where and why.