Publication: Doing Business Economy Profile 2017: Barbados
Date
2016-10-25
ISSN
Published
2016-10-25
Author(s)
World Bank Group
Abstract
This economy profile presents the Doing
Business indicators for Barbados. To allow useful
comparison, it also provides data for other selected
economies (comparator economies) for each indicator. Doing
Business 2017 is the 14th in a series of annual reports
investigating the regulations that enhance business activity
and those that constrain it. Economies are ranked on their
ease of doing business; for 2016 Barbados ranks 115. Doing
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 11
areas in the life cycle of a business: starting a business,
dealing with construction permits, getting electricity,
registering property, getting credit, protecting minority
investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing
contracts, resolving insolvency, and labor market
regulation. Doing Business 2017 presents the data for the
labor market regulation indicators in an annex. The report
does not present rankings of economies on labor market
regulation indicators or include the topic in the aggregate
distance to frontier score or ranking on the ease of doing
business. The indicators are used to analyze economic
outcomes and identify what reforms have worked, where and
why. The data in this report are current as of June 1, 2016
(except for the paying taxes indicators, which cover the
period January-December 2015).
Link to Data Set
Citation
“World Bank Group. 2016. Doing Business Economy Profile 2017: Barbados. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25426 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”