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  1. Data

This topic measures the strength of minority shareholder protections against misuse of corporate assets by directors for their personal gain as well as shareholder rights, governance safeguards and corporate transparency requirements that reduce the risk of abuse. The most recent round of data collection for the project was completed in May 2020. See the methodology for more information. Video presentation of the methodology is also available.

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Doing Busines score

This measure helps assess the absolute level of performance over time. It captures the gap of each economy from the best performance observed on each of the indicators across all economies in the Doing Business sample since 2005. An economy’s ease of doing business score is reflected on a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 represents the lowest and 100 represents the best performance. For example, an ease of doing business score of 75 in Doing Business 2020 means an economy was 25 percentage points away from the best performance constructed across all economies and across time. A score of 80 in Doing Business 2021 would indicate the economy is improving. Read more...