Doing Business sheds light on how easy or difficult it is for a local entrepreneur to open and run a small to medium-size business when complying with relevant regulations. It measures and tracks changes in regulations affecting 11 areas in the life cycle of a business: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading  across borders, enforcing contracts, resolving insolvency and employing workers.

In a series of annual reports  Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 185 economies, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, over time. The data set covers 46 economies in SubSaharan Africa, 33 in Latin America and the Caribbean, 24 in East Asia and the Pacific,  24 in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, 19 in the Middle East and North Africa and 8 in South Asia, as well as 31 OECD highincome economies. The indicators are used to analyze economic outcomes and identify what reforms have worked, where and why.

This economy profile presents the  Doing Business indicators for Argentina. To allow useful comparison, it also provides data for other selected economies (comparator economies) for each indicator.

The data in this report are current as of June 1, 2012 (except for the paying taxes indicators, which cover the period January–December 2011).

The Doing Business methodology has limitations. Other areas important to business—such as an economy‘s proximity to large markets, the quality of its infrastructure services (other than those related to trading across borders and getting electricity), the security of property from theft and looting, the transparency of government procurement, macroeconomic conditions or the underlying strength of institutions—are not directly studied by  Doing Business. The indicators refer to a specific type of business, generally a local limited liability company operating in the largest business city.

Because standard assumptions are used in the data collection, comparisons and benchmarks are valid across economies. The data not only highlight the extent of obstacles to doing business; they also help identify the source of those obstacles, supporting policy makers in designing regulatory reform.

More information is available in the full report. Doing Business 2013 presents the indicators, analyzes their relationship with economic outcomes and  presentsbusiness  regulatory reforms. The data, along with information on ordering  Doing Business 2013, are available on the  Doing Business website  at http://www.doingbusiness.org.

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