The World Bank has just released the 16th edition of its Doing Business 2019 report, which analyzes the economic environments of 190 countries.

Haiti with a score of 38.52 out of 100 for ease of doing business, down one place from last year https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-22606-haiti-economy-doing-business-2018-in-business-haiti-stagnates-and-remains-misclassified.html to rank 182nd out of 190 countries between Chad (181st) and the Central African Republic (183rd).

This decline of one place, brings Haiti to the same level as in 2015, and keeps our country in the TOP 10 of the worst countries in the world to do business and good last of the countries of the Caribbean zone. In the Latin America and Caribbean Region only Venezuela (188th) is worse than Haiti. Our Dominican neighbor is down 3 places and ranks 102nd out of 190 countries.

Despite these few minor advances, 97 days are still needed to start a business in Haiti (189th) versus 16.5 days in the Dominican Republic (117th) and 312 days is required to register a property (181st) versus 45 days in the Republic Dominican (77th). Regarding the protection of investors, minority Haiti is ranked 188th against 83rd for the neighboring Republic.

TOP 3 Best Savings for Doing Business :

1 - New Zealand

2 - Singapore

3 - Denmark

TOP 3 worst economy for doing business :

188th - Venezuela

189th - Eritrea

190th - Somalia

For full details, download the full report "Doing Business 2019" (PDF, 304 pages in English): https://www.haitilibre.com/docs/DB2019-report_web-version.pdf

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-22606-haiti-economy-doing-business-2018-in-business-haiti-stagnates-and-remains-misclassified.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-19080-haiti-economy-doing-business-haiti-still-in-the-back-of-the-pack.html

SL/ HaitiLibre