Worldwide data from the Doing Business project details procedural steps for resolving commercial disputes in court. The dataset compiles a list of required interactions between parties and court officers for each economy. It is based on the methodology from DB04-15 studies.
Use Cases
- Analyze the correlation between the number of procedures and economic indicators like GDP growth.
- Cluster economies based on procedural step patterns to identify regional legal system similarities.
- Predict the total time or cost to enforce a contract using the count and sequence of procedures as features.
- Benchmark procedural reforms in a country by tracking changes in the compiled step list over time.
Strengths
- Compiled for multiple economies, enabling cross-country analysis.
- Based on a defined methodology from DB04-15 studies for consistency.
Limitations
- Specific row count, time range, and update recency are unknown.
- Lacks visible column details like procedure names, durations, or costs.
Provenance
- Source
- Doing Business project, World Bank.
- Collection Method
- Compilation of procedural steps required by law or common practice for commercial disputes.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Worldwide, covering multiple economies.