By DICTA ASIIMWE
Reforms have made it easier to do business in four out of six East African Community countries, a new World bank report says.
Rwanda remained the easiest place to start a business in the region, moving three places up globally, according the World Bank's Doing Business 2017 report released in Kampala yesterday.
Rwanda is ranked 56 from last years’ 59. This makes Rwanda the
second easiest country within which to do business in Sub-Saharan Africa
after Mauritius, which is ranked 49th.
Kenya, the blocs biggest economy though at the second place was
the most improved, moving 21 places up the ranking from 113 last year to
92. This puts Kenya among the 10 best reformers in the world.
The World Bank attributes the positive shift to implementation of different reforms especially on infrastructure investment.
According to the report, Kenya made starting a business easier
by removing stamp duty fees required for the nominal capital, memorandum
and articles of association and eliminating requirements to sign the
compliance declaration before a commissioner of oaths.
Kenya was also the only Sub-Saharan Africa economy to improve
resolving insolvency regulations without being a member of the
Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa (OHADA).
East Africa's largest economy also improved access to electricity for business.
The laggards
On its part, Uganda introduced at least three reforms last year.
That boosted the country's ranking from position 122 last year to 115
this year.
Kampala made trading across borders easier by introduction of
the Malaba One-Stop Border Post, the elimination of paper submission in
the filing tax returns and the removal of the requirement that a
commissioner of oaths must sign compliance declarations.
Tanzania, which is now ranked 132nd from 144th last year, gained
in the area of access to credit. The country's credit bureau system,
which had by January 2016 registered 6.5 per cent of the adult
population is expected to ease the cost of lending out money.
Troubled by civil strife, Burundi and South Sudan, the blocs newest members remain the least ranked.
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