2004-2015 data from the Doing Business project benchmarks economies on procedures to enforce contracts. The dataset provides a score from 0 to 100, where 100 represents the best regulatory performance. It was compiled by the World Bank's Doing Business team.
Use Cases
- Benchmarking regulatory performance across economies using the 0-100 enforcement score.
- Analyzing trends in contract enforcement procedures over the 2004-2015 period.
- Correlating the enforcement score with other economic indicators like GDP growth or foreign investment.
- Identifying economies with the highest and lowest scores for comparative legal studies.
Strengths
- Scores are standardized on a clear 0 to 100 scale for direct comparison.
- Methodology is defined and documented in the DB04-15 studies.
- Data covers a defined 12-year period from 2004 to 2015.
Limitations
- Sample size and number of economies covered are unknown.
- Data is temporally stale, with the last study year being 2015.
- Specific procedures measured to calculate the score are not detailed.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank Doing Business project.
- Collection Method
- Benchmarking study based on a defined regulatory best practice methodology.
- Time Range
- 2004-2015
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Multiple economies (specific list unknown).