Training for Reform - KDIPA · Training for Reform ... • Doing Business has recorded 3,519 regulatory reforms making it easier to do business since 2004. • Developing economies

16TH EDITION

Training for Reform

Development Economics │Global Indicators

Kuwait

March 11, 2019

Dalal Marafie

Private Sector Analyst

World Bank Group


I. About Doing Business

II. Findings of Doing Business 2019III. WBG Support to Kuwait Direct Investment Promotion

Authority to improve the business environment

The 11 areas of business regulation measured by Doing Business

affecting firms throughout their life cycle

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New

Doing Business indicators:

• Focus on regulations relevant to the life cycle of a small to medium-size

domestic business.

• Are built on standardized case scenarios.

• Are measured for the largest business city in each economy, and the second

largest business city in countries with more than 100 million inhabitants as of 2013.

• Are focused on the formal sector.

What does Doing Business measure?

3 http://www.doingbusiness.org/

“The private sector is key to creating sustainable economic growth and ending poverty around the

world. Fair, efficient, and transparent rules, which Doing Business promotes, are the bedrock of a

vibrant economy and entrepreneurship environment. It’s critical for governments to accelerate

efforts to create the conditions for private enterprise to thrive and communities to prosper.”Jim Yong Kim , President of the World Bank Group

16 years of Doing Business

1,116 business reforms

Doing Business has identified

3,519 business reforms

131,791 contributions

Doing Business

has reached

169 economiesDoing Business

has visited

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Doing Business

has inspired




Governments around the world set a new record in improving the

regulatory environment for the domestic private sector in 2017/18

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128ECONOMIES

MADE 314REFORMS

MAKING IT

EASIER TO

DO BUSINESS

• Doing Business has recorded 3,519 regulatory reforms making it easier to do business since 2004.

• Developing economies implemented 82% of all regulatory reforms in 2017/18.

Source: Doing Business database.

OECD high-income

23

47%

Latin America & Caribbean

25

56%

East Asia & Pacific

43

64%

South Asia

19

63%

Sub-Saharan Africa

107

83%

Europe & Central Asia

54

83%

Middle East & North Africa

43

70%

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Share of economies that reformed in a region %

Number of reforms per region

Average number of reforms per economy

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70% of the economies in MENA carried out reforms in 2017/18

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Who in the Gulf Cooperation Countries Region reformed in areas

measured by Doing Business in 2017/18?

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Starting a business

Protecting minority investors

Getting credit

Trading across borders

Getting electricity

Registering property

Enforcing contracts

Paying taxes

Resolving insolvency

Dealing with construction permits

Labor market regulations

Kuwait; Qatar; UAE

Bahrain; Kuwait; Saudi Arabia;

Bahrain; Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

UAE; Saudi Arabia

UAE; Qatar

UAE;

Starting a business (133)

Dealing with construction permits (131)

Getting electricity (95)

Registering property (69)

Getting credit (134)

Protecting minority investors (72)

Paying taxes (7)

Trading across borders (159)

Enforcing contracts (77)

Resolving insolvency (115)

Doing Business in Kuwait – ranking

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Rankings on Doing Business topics – Kuwait(Scale: Rank 190 center, Rank 1 outer edge)

Source: Doing Business 2019

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Written exchanges with colleagues around the data based on the preliminary reform update memo, ahead of the publication of the report.

Written Exchanges

Bank-wide review of the draft Doing Business 2018 report.

Bank-wide Review

For Doing Business2018 data collection

Questionnaires Distributed

To send updates on ongoing reforms expected to affect the Doing Business indicators.

Open Call to Govts.

Doing Business team circulates to governments a compilation of the reforms the team has captured during the data collection cycle

Reforms Compiled

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The objectives of our technical assistance are two-fold

SUPPORTING REFORM

IMPLEMENTATIONSupporting the Government of Kuwait in the implementation of reforms aiming at improving the regulatory environment in indicators measured by the Doing Business report 2019.

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CAPACITY BUILDING

PLATFORM

The project serves as an important platform for building capacity and helping to create a business-friendly regulatory environment.

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Currently, we have four ongoing activities in this realm

Regulatory ProceduresReengineer key regulatory procedures in

indicators measured by the Doing

Business report.

National Agenda The “National Agenda for Improving the

Business Environment” was issued to

formulate recommendations (short and

medium) to further improve the business

environment and prioritize criteria with

measurable objectives, a timetable and

identify the responsible government

agencies.

Implementation

GovernanceDesign an implementation governance led

by KDIPA and monitoring system to allow

KDIPA and “Permanent Committee for

Streamlining Business Environment &

Enhancing Competitiveness (PCK)” to

oversee the implementation of the

National Agenda through working groups

for each indicator from over 18

government agencies.

Comprehensive Review

Launch a comprehensive review on key

regulations and legislation governing the

business environment and provide

recommendations to improve reforms.

Starting a Business

Kuwait Business Center

KDIPA

Ministry of Commerce and Industry

Kuwait Municipality

Ministry of Public Works

Chamber of Commerce

Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI)

Ministry of Justice

Public Authority of Manpower

Trade Across Borders

General Administration of Customs

KDIPA

Kuwait Ports Authority

Kuwait Municipality

Environment Public Authority

Public Authority for Industry

Ministry of Health

Public Authority for Food and Nutrition


Ministry of Interior

Dealing with Construction Permit

Kuwait Municipality

KDIPA

Ministry of Electricity and Water

Ministry of Public Works

Public Authority for Industry (PAI)


Kuwait Fire Service Directorate

Environment Public Authority

Central Agency for Information Technology

(CAIT)

Getting Electricity

Ministry of Electricity

and Water (MEW)

KDIPA

Kuwait Municipality

Registering Property

Ministry of Justice (MOJ)

KDIPA

Kuwait Municipality

Kuwait Fire Service Directorate

Ministry of Electricity and Water

Ministry of Communications

The time and motion working groups consist of the following:

Enforcing Contracts

Ministry of Justice (MoJ)

KDIPA

Ministry of Justice (MoJ)

Commercial Circuit

Court of Cessation

Real Estate Registry and Auth. Sector

Judiciary


Kuwait Municipality

Protecting Minority Investors

Capital Market Authority

KDIPA


Ministry of Justice

Kuwait Institute for Judicial & Legal Studies

Resolving Insolvency


KDIPA

Kuwait Institute for Judicial & Legal Studies

Experts Department

and Judiciary

Getting Credit

Central Bank

KDIPA

Ci-Net

CITRA


The legal working groups consist of the following:

Some Examples of Project Outcome To-date

Project

Outcomes

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Getting Electricity

Development of single window to

facilitate procedures in the Ministry

of Electricity and Water.

Dealing Construction

Permits

• Adopting the executive

regulations of municipal

law no. 33/2016

• Recommending online

building permits based

on best international

practices with Kuwait

Municipality.

Protect Minority

InvestorsRecommending and reviewing the

executive regulations of the Capital

Markets Authority to protect minority

investors

Starting Businesses

Establishment of the Kuwait Business

Center.

In continuing our work on this engagement, we will focus on the

following three main areas:

BUILD CAPACITY

Continue building the capacity of

KDIPA and working groups from 18

different related agencies working on

improving each indicator through

workshops to ensure their

commitment to implement short and

long-term recommendations in the

“National Agenda”.

IMPROVE

REGULATIONS

Continue supporting the improvement

of regulations and processes in the

areas measured by the Doing Business

report.

SIMPLIFY BUSINESS

ENVIRONMENT

Continue supporting the government

of Kuwait to simplify the business

environment and enhance

competitiveness in monitoring and

evaluating the implementation of

reforms.

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