v Foreword
1 Overview
15 About Doing Business
24 What is changing in Doing Business?
33 Reforming the business environment in 2013/14
Case studies
47 Starting a business
The growing efficiency of company registries
53 Zoning and urban planning
Understanding the benefits
60 Registering property
Measuring the quality of land administration systems
67 Getting credit
The importance of registries
76 Protecting minority investors
Going beyond related-party transactions
83 Paying taxes
Trends before and after the financial crisis
90 Enforcing contracts
How judicial efficiency supports freedom of contract
96 Resolving insolvency
Measuring the strength of insolvency laws
102 Highlights from the Doing Business research conference
109 References
114 Data notes
146 Distance to frontier and ease of doing business ranking
152 Summaries of Doing Business reforms in 2013/14
167 Country tables
231 Labor market regulation data
252 Acknowledgments