Publication: Economy Profile of the Democratic Republic of Congo
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2018-10-31
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2018-11-13
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Sixteenth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2019 covers 11 areas of business regulation. Ten of these areas - starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency - are included in the ease of doing business score and ease of doing business ranking. Doing Business also measures features of labor market regulation, which is not included in these two measures. Doing Business provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 190 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level. This economy profile presents indicators for Congo, Democratic Republic of; for 2019 Congo, Democratic Republic of ranks 184.
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“World Bank Group. 2018. Economy Profile of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Doing Business 2019;. © World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30855 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”
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