Botswana slips 11 notches in doing business rankings :: Mmegi Online

Botswana has slid 11 spots down the ease of doing business rankings with the relatively slower pace of reform implementation largely to blame for this slip. The World Bank’s Doing Business 2018 report released yesterday, under the theme ‘reforming to create jobs, shows that Botswana dropped from position 71 last year to 81 out of 190 countries despite the country’s score increasing slightly from 64.87 to 64.94 points.

The Doing Business report captures several important dimensions of the regulatory environment as it applies to local firms while providing quantitative indicators on regulation. The regulation indicators range from 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 features of the labour market regulation.

Botswana’s fall in rankings comes despite the country making two significant reforms, which made doing business easier in the year, suggesting that other countries could have implemented more and better reforms in the period under review.

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