Firm level benefits and costs to being registered (% of firms)
| Registration costs | Registration benefits | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firms identifying time, fees and paperwork | Firms identifying taxes to be paid | Firms identifying less bribes to be paid | Firms identifying better access to finance reason to register | Firms identifying inter alia, infrastructure and government services | |
| Angola (2010) | 72.2 | – | 57.0 | 87.6 | 36.2 |
| Botswana (2010) | 38.9 | – | 5.5 | 75.5 | 25.0 |
| Burkina Faso (2009) | 73.3 | – | 50.0 | 89.8 | 37.1 |
| Cabo Verde (2009) | 92.7 | – | 11.2 | 71.7 | 34.9 |
| Cameroon (2009) | 47.6 | – | 43.5 | 69.6 | 32.7 |
| The DRC (2013) | 56.4 | 58.1 | 13.4 | 66.1 | 33.3 |
| Ghana (2013) | 58.6 | 45.6 | 23.3 | 61.9 | 45.8 |
| Kenya (2013) | 56.2 | 56.9 | 40.1 | 76.8 | 60.8 |
| Madagascar (2009) | – | – | 44.4 | 46.0 | 51.7 |
| Mali (2010) | 91.7 | – | 11.7 | 79.6 | 29.0 |
| Mauritius (2009) | – | – | 50.0 | 73.2 | 60.6 |
| Rwanda (2011) | 58.2 | 61.1 | 8.8 | 90.4 | 49.6 |
| Mozambique (2018) | 38.2 | 31.3 | 24.3 | 37.3 | 16.6 |
| Zimbabwe (2016) | 78.3 | 80.6 | 29.8 | 59.3 | 48.6 |
| Average | 76.2 | 55.6 | 29.5 | 70.3 | 40.1 |
| Registration costs | Registration benefits | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firms identifying time, fees and paperwork | Firms identifying taxes to be paid | Firms identifying less bribes to be paid | Firms identifying better access to finance reason to register | Firms identifying | |
| Angola (2010) | 72.2 | – | 57.0 | 87.6 | 36.2 |
| Botswana (2010) | 38.9 | – | 5.5 | 75.5 | 25.0 |
| Burkina Faso (2009) | 73.3 | – | 50.0 | 89.8 | 37.1 |
| Cabo Verde (2009) | 92.7 | – | 11.2 | 71.7 | 34.9 |
| Cameroon (2009) | 47.6 | – | 43.5 | 69.6 | 32.7 |
| The DRC (2013) | 56.4 | 58.1 | 13.4 | 66.1 | 33.3 |
| Ghana (2013) | 58.6 | 45.6 | 23.3 | 61.9 | 45.8 |
| Kenya (2013) | 56.2 | 56.9 | 40.1 | 76.8 | 60.8 |
| Madagascar (2009) | – | – | 44.4 | 46.0 | 51.7 |
| Mali (2010) | 91.7 | – | 11.7 | 79.6 | 29.0 |
| Mauritius (2009) | – | – | 50.0 | 73.2 | 60.6 |
| Rwanda (2011) | 58.2 | 61.1 | 8.8 | 90.4 | 49.6 |
| Mozambique (2018) | 38.2 | 31.3 | 24.3 | 37.3 | 16.6 |
| Zimbabwe (2016) | 78.3 | 80.6 | 29.8 | 59.3 | 48.6 |
| Average | 76.2 | 55.6 | 29.5 | 70.3 | 40.1 |
Source(s): Author's calculation based on World Bank enterprise data
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