Doing Business in 2006: Creating Jobs is the third in a
series of annual reports investigating the regulations
that enhance business activity and those that constrain
it. New quantitative indicators on business regulations
and their enforcement can be compared across 155
countries—from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe—and over
time. Doing Business in 2004: Understanding Regulation
presented indicators in 5 topics: starting a business,
hiring and fi ring workers, enforcing contracts, getting
credit and closing a business. Doing Business in 2005:
Removing Obstacles to Growth updated these measures
and added another two sets: registering property and
protecting investors. Doing Business in 2006 again updates
all previous measures and adds three more sets:
dealing with licenses, paying taxes and trading across
borders, to create a total of 10 areas measured. The
indicators are used to analyze economic outcomes and
identify what reforms have worked, where, and why.