A team of lawyers from Eterna Law took part in the preparation Doing Business 2018 report by the World Bank Group

Oleh Malskyy, Partner, Head of Corporate Law Practice and M&A and Margarita Tatarova, Junior Associate, took part in the preparation of the World Bank Group’s report Doing Business 2018: Reforming to Create Jobs. The publication received broad media coverage. Data in Doing Business 2018 are current as of June 1, 2017. The indicators are used to analyze economic outcomes and identify what reforms of business regulation have worked, where and why.

Doing Business 2018: Reforming to Create Jobs, a World Bank Group flagship publication, is the 15th in a series of annual reports measuring the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 190 economies and over time.

Doing Business measures regulations affecting 11 areas of the life of a business. Ten of these areas are included in this year’s ranking on the ease of doing business: 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. Doing Business also measures labor market regulation, which is not included in this year’s ranking.

 

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