World Bank - Doing Business Report

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (10) ◽  
pp. 21885A-21885B
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Doing Business

Ease of Doing Business and Its Impact on Inward FDI

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Tareq Hossain ◽  
Zubair Hassan ◽  
Sumaiya Shafiq ◽  
Abdul Basit
Keyword(s):  
Regression Model ◽  
Causal Relationship ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Least Square Regression ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Ease Of Doing Business ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Starting A Business

This study investigates the impact of Ease of Doing Business on Inward FDI over the period from 2011 to 2015 across the globe. This study measures ease of doing business using starting a business, getting credit, registering property, paying taxes and enforcing contracts. The research used a sample of 177 countries from 190 countries listed in World Bank. Least square regression model via E-views software used to examine causal relationship. The study found that ease of doing business indicators ‘Enforcing Contracts’ was found to have a positive significant impact on Inward FDI. Nevertheless, ‘Getting Credit’ and ‘Registering Property’ were found to have a negative significant impact on Inward FDI. However, ‘Starting a Business’ and ‘Paying Taxes’ have no significant impact on Inward FDI in the studied timeframe of this research. The findings of the study suggested the ease of doing business enables inward FDI through better contract enforcements, getting credit and registering property. The findings of the research will assist international managers and companies to know the importance of ease of doing business when investing in foreign countries through FDI.

scholarly journals Ease of Doing Business Index: An Analysis of Investors Practical View

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-123
Author(s):  
Shakirat Adepeju Babatunde ◽  
Mohammed Kayode Ajape ◽  
Kabir Dandago Isa ◽  
Owolabi Kuye ◽  
Eddy Olajide Omolehinwa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Return On Investment ◽  
Government Procurement ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Procurement Process ◽  
Chamber Of Commerce ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Ease Of Doing Business ◽  
The Government

Abstract: This study investigates the effect of Ease of Doing Business Index (EDBI) on Return on Investment (ROI). The study employs a cross-sectional survey design covering five years from 2015 to 2019. The sample is 47 registered companies with the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which is the most representative of the organised private sector group in Nigeria. The study adopts descriptive and linear regression statistical analysis. Findings show a statistically significant negative effect of Government policy continuity. The government procurement process, Raw materials availability and Quality of workforce show adverse effects. Traffic and transportation management, power supply and Security infrastructure show insignificant effect on ROI. Hence, findings indicate that Government procurement process is inimical to ease of doing business in Nigeria despite the government improvement efforts. Since government efforts are insufficient, the World Bank should incorporate private sector ideals into EDBI to create a synergy a robust EDBI. Keywords: Ease of Doing Business, ease of doing business index, return on investment, investors, World Bank.      Ease of Doing Business Index: Sebuah Analisis terhadap Pandangan Praktis InvestorAbstrak: Penelitian ini menginvestigasi pengaruh Ease of Doing Business Index (EDBI) terhadap Return on Investment (ROI). Penelitian ini menggunakan desain survei cross-sectional dari tahun 2015 sampai dengan tahun 2019. Sampel penelitian ini adalah 47 perusahaan yang terdaftar di Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Penelitian ini menggunakan analisis deskriptif dan statistik regresi linear. Dari berbagai elemen EDBI, temuan dari penelitian ini menunjukkan adanya pengaruh negatif yang signifikan antara keterlanjutan kebijakan pemerintah terhadap ROI. Proses pengadaan pemerintah, ketersediaan bahan mentah, dan kualitas tenaga kerja menunjukkan pengaruh berkebalikan dengan ROI. Lalu lintas dan manajemen transportasi, supply listrik, dan infrastruktur keamanan menunjukkan pengaruh tidak signifikan terhadap ROI. Usaha pemerintah dalam meningkatkan proses pengaadaan pemerintah masih belum memadai karena masih kecilnya pengaruh terhadap EDBI Nigeria. World Bank sebaiknya memasukkan pengaruh sektor privat dalam indikator EDBI sebagai upaya menciptakan sinergi antara pemerintah dan sektor privat untuk peningkatan EDBI dan dampaknya pada ekonomi. Kata kunci: Ease of Doing Business, indeks kemudahan berbisnis, pengembalian investasi, investor, Bank Dunia

scholarly journals Menarik Investasi Ke Indonesia Dengan Tax Holiday

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-141
Author(s):  
Irwan Aribowo ◽  
Deny Irawan
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Tax Incentives ◽  
Positive Signal ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Ease Of Doing Business ◽  
Tax Holidays ◽  
The Right ◽  
Tax Holiday

This research contains about how tax holiday as one of the tax incentives used by the Indonesian government to attract investment Ease of Doing Business index (EoDB)  released by the World Bank. Tax holiday is expected to be able to provide a positive signal to investors that Indonesia is the right country to invest in. In this paper it was found that tax holidays are not capable of attracting investment alone, but other factors are needed in order for tax holidays to be successful in attracting investment. Penelitian ini berisi tentang bagaimana tax holiday sebagai salah satu insentif pajak yang digunakan oleh pemerintah Indonesia untuk menarik investasi Karena pajak merupakan salah satu yang menjadi perhitungan dalam indeks kemudahan bisnis yang dirilis oleh Bank Dunia. Tax holiday diharapkan mampu memberikan sinyal positif kepada para investor bahwa Indonesia adalah negara yang tepat untuk berinvestasi. Dalam penelitian ini dtemukan bahwa tax holiday tak mampu sendirian menarik investasi, akan tetapi dibutuhkan faktor-faktor lain agar tax holiday berhasil menarik investasi,

scholarly journals The re-co-construction of legitimacy of/through the Doing Business indicators

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 498-511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Perry-Kessaris
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World

AbstractThe present paper argues that the Doing Business indicators, their legitimacy (their ability to be defended through some logic or justification arising from standards) and the wider notions of legitimacy (the standards) that they promulgate are all best understood as social or, better still, ‘econosociolegal’ constructions. It tracks their, primarily post-financial crisis, re-co-construction within and beyond the World Bank from servant of the private sector and discipliner of states to something approaching social champion. But it warns that the perceptions of legitimacy that have been generated by those indicators may well linger.

Nigeria’s 2020 budget plans could prove impossible

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rate ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Growth Potential ◽  
High Interest Rate ◽  
Content Type ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Deficit Financing ◽  
Rate Environment ◽  
Ease Of Doing Business

Subject Nigeria's 2020 budget. Significance President Muhammadu Buhari on October 8 proposed a 10.3-trillion-naira (28.4-billion-dollar) budget for 2020. The budget plans to increase spending on much-needed infrastructure, while deficit financing trends also look set to continue with a proposed 2.18-trillion-naira deficit. However, the proposed budget is plagued by the same challenges that have crippled previous Buhari plans, namely overly optimistic revenue expectations. Impacts A curtailing of infrastructure spending, combined with the high interest rate environment, will likely limit the economy's growth potential. Increased compliance costs could hurt an already diminished investment reputation and future World Bank ‘ease of doing business’ rankings. An easier relationship between the presidency and the national assembly should see the budget passed without the major delays of past years.

MEASURING LONG-TERM COMMODITY-LEVEL TRADE COSTS: THE CASE OF ASIA

2012 ◽  
Vol 03 (02) ◽  
pp. 1250014
Author(s):  
SHINTARO HAMANAKA ◽  
ROMANA DOMINGO
Keyword(s):  
Developing Country ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Trade Costs ◽  
Trade Facilitation ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Business Data

Despite its several inherent weaknesses, Doing Business compiled by the World Bank is still the most widely used assessment of the trade facilitation status among developing country policymakers as well as economists. In this paper, we suggest that the use of trade costs calculated based on trade statistics in conjunction with Doing Business data is helpful in drawing up sector-specific trade facilitation policies. Unlike Doing Business, we can obtain long-term commodity-level trade costs if trade statistics are used.

scholarly journals How the Legal Environment Affects the Structure of Employment

2015 ◽  
Vol 63 (6) ◽  
pp. 2005-2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Litzman ◽  
Luděk Kouba
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Legal Environment ◽  
Transparency International ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Corruption Perception

The quality of the institutional environment is considered a crucial determinant of economic growth. Low quality of the formal institutional environment can slow down economic development via various mechanisms described in the literature. The present paper will analyse formal institutional factors leading to the structure of employment that Murphy, Shleifer and Vishny (The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1991) found to be associated with lower rate of economic growth. They assumed that a high proportion of lawyers in the country may be associated with slower economic development. Thus, the aim of the paper is to examine some of the parameters of institutional environment that can lead to such a distribution. Results show that quality of law measured by the World Bank (Doing Business database) and the Corruption Perception Index obtained from Transparency International may have some explanatory abilities regarding the structure of employment.

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