Launched 8 years ago

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Doing Business compares business regulation in
183 economies

• Launched 8 years ago
• Focuses on regulations relevant to the life cycle
  of a small to medium-sized domestic business
  based on a standardized case
• Does not measure all aspects of the business
  environment
• The objective efficient regulations, accessible
  to all, and simple to implement

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What Subnational Doing Business adds

• Expands the DB indicators beyond the most
  populous city
• Captures local differences in regulations or
  enforcement
• Includes rules and regulations at all levels of
  government
• Gives specific locations an opportunity to tell
  their story
• Provides a tool for locations to compete globally
• Provides information on good practices within the
  same country that can be easily replicated
• Combines media appeal of DB with active
  participation of subnational governments in the
  reform process

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Doing Business in Nigeria 2010 covers all 36
states and the capital

• Doing Business in Nigeria 2008 measured 10
  states and Abuja, FCT.
• Doing Business in Nigeria 2010 updates 2008
  data and measures federal and state regulations
  across the country in 4 areas of the life of a
  business

• Starting a business
• Dealing with construction permits
• Registering property
• Enforcing contracts

Data were collected with the help of more than
480 private sector contributors and public sector
officials
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Nigerian states are reforming and can learn from
each other

• Key findings
• 8 of the 11 states measured in 2008 and again in
  2010 have improved in at least one area
• Wide variation in business regulations across the
  country shows that there is room for reform
• Some states already perform up to international
  standards in some areas
• States can learn from the existing good practices
  of their peers and become more competitive
  nationally and globally

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Where is it easier to do business in Nigeria and
where not?
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Over the past 2 years, reforms made doing
business easier in Nigeria
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Starting a business large variations in time and
cost across the states
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Starting a business in Abuja takes half the time
compared to Bayelsa
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5 of the 11 states measured for the second time
cut the time to obtain construction permits
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Kano ranks 67th globally in the cost of obtaining
a construction permit
SSA denotes the Sub-Saharan African region
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Registering property is generally slow and
expensive but there are exceptions
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New civil procedure rules result in faster
contract enforcement
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A state adopting the existing best practices
would rank 72nd globally
Nigeria DB2010
108 Starting a business
162 Dealing with construction permits
178 Registering property
94 Enforcing contracts
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out of 183 economies
Nigeria with best practices
62 Starting a business
11 Dealing with construction permits
89 Registering property
46 Enforcing contracts
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out of 183 economies
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Why business regulation reform matters

• Easier business entry means more new firms
  evidence from empirical research
• Mexico
• Impact of the reduction of registration
  procedures through the introduction of One-Stop
  Shops and the elimination of federally required
  procedures
• Increase in the number of new firms of about 6
• Increase in employment by 2.6
• Consumer Price Index decrease by 1 due to
  competitive pressures of new entrants
• Colombia
• Impact of the introduction of One-Stop Shops in 6
  cities
• Increase of 5.2 in the number of new firms
• India
• Impact of the elimination of License Raj in 16
  states over 64 industries
• Increase in the number of new firms by 6

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• Thank you

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