Business Environment Reform

Related to SDG 8.6.1

Related to SDG 12.2.2

Related to SDG 10.1.1

[X] – please specify for your intervention. Could be goods, services, electricity, etc.
** exact unit will depend on the commodities/services chosen

Concentration index, also named Herfindahl-Hirschmann Index (Product HHI), is a measure of the degree of product concentration.

The index is valued between 0 and 1, where closer to 1 indicates a country's exports or imports are highly concentrated on a few products.

Estimates might vary between different sources due methodological differences, so please use one source (and hence estimation methodology) for programme monitoring.

Periodic surveys (at least annual) as part of intervention M&E

sector/value chain [X] – to be defined, which is most relevant to programme.
 
Compare pre and post programme numbers to get the number of new firms

The Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI) Project Database has data on over 6,400 infrastructure projects in 139 low- and middle-income countries. The database is the leading source of PPI trends in the developing world, covering projects in the energy, telecommunications, transport, and water and sewerage sectors. Projects include management or lease contracts, concessions, greenfield projects, and divestitures.

Do not include financing from bilateral, multilateral or DFIs.
At HQ, may need to disaggregate by EIP vs other programmes and projects.

Please adapt the indicator according to the question you have

Please adapt the indicator according to the question you have

Focus on actual times need to comply with regulations rather than the published times from official documentation and/or procedures.
Business regulation can refer to all business regulations or specific reforms that the intervention has supported, e.g. days to obtain an operating license/construction related permit, etc. If the latter, then you need to specific in the indicator, e.g. actual number of days to comply with tax regulation, etc.

Measures business executives' perceptions of their country's government regulation burden: question asked is "In your country, how burdensome is it for businesses to comply with governmental administrative requirements (e.g., permits, regulations, reporting)? [1 = extremely burdensome; 7 = not burdensome at all] "
Note this is only perceptions, and less likely to capture views of smallholder or micro business's opinions.

This would normally be a national level or a high level outcome indicators or even may also be used at impact level for some programmes.

World Bank's Ease of Doing Business Ranking from 1 to 190, with 1 being the top ranking.

Ease of Doing Business Distance to Frontier Score, from 0 to 100  (higher the score means closer to the frontier)

Improvement of the business environment, measured as the "Distance to frontier indicators":

• The distance to frontier score benchmarks economies with respect to regulatory best practice
• The ranking compares economies with one another based on the aggregate score. So the rank could decrease even if the frontier score has increased.

It's more meaningful to monitor the score of the topic and/or at sub-national level that is most relevant to the project rather than looking at overall country score.

Please note that some elements of the Doing Business surveys are largely based on measurements of the regulations rather than firm experience on the ground. So if possible programmes should also monitor the realities on the ground through additional enterprise surveys etc.