Doing Business Economy Profile 2017: Lao People’s Democratic Republic

doi:10.1596/25557

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Doing Business Economy Profile 2017: Lao People’s Democratic Republic

dc.contributor.author	World Bank Group
dc.date.accessioned	2016-12-02T16:01:07Z
dc.date.available	2016-12-02T16:01:07Z
dc.date.issued	2016-10-25
dc.description.abstract	This economy profile presents the Doing Business indicators for Lao People’s Democratic Republic. 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 Lao People’s Democratic Republic ranks 136. 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).	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/489831478594080508/Doing-business-2017-equal-opportunity-for-all-Lao-People-s-Democratic-Republic
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/25557
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/25557
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subject	business environment
dc.subject	construction permits
dc.subject	regulation
dc.subject	access to finance
dc.subject	taxes
dc.subject	contract law
dc.subject	labor policies
dc.title	Doing Business Economy Profile 2017	en
dc.title.subtitle	Lao People’s Democratic Republic	en
dc.type	Report	en
dc.type	Rapport	fr
dc.type	Informe	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crossref.title	Doing Business Economy Profile 2017: Lao People’s Democratic Republic
okr.date.disclosure	2016-11-08
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Working Paper
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/489831478594080508/Doing-business-2017-equal-opportunity-for-all-Lao-People-s-Democratic-Republic
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okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/25557
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum	090224b0846c57b3_1_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum	26919362
okr.identifier.report	109944
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okr.language.supported	en
okr.pdfurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/489831478594080508/pdf/109944-WP-DB17-PUBLIC-Lao-PDR.pdf	en
okr.region.administrative	East Asia and Pacific
okr.region.country	Lao People's Democratic Republic
okr.topic	Private Sector Development::Business Environment
okr.topic	Private Sector Development::Legal Regulation and Business Environment
okr.topic	Law and Development::Contract Law
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Labor Policies
okr.unit	Doing Business - WB (DECDB)