{"page":1,"pages":1,"per_page":"5000","total":13,"source":[{"id":"2","name":"World Development Indicators","concept":[{"id":"Series","variable":[{"id":"IC.BRE.DR.P2","metatype":[{"id":"Dataset","value":"WB_WDI"},{"id":"Developmentrelevance","value":"Inability to resolve commercial disputes promptly and fairly can lead to adverse economic outcomes in the private sector, ranging from reduced entrepreneurship and lower investment to macroeconomic volatility. This makes efficient and quality dispute resolution essential for a healthy business environment. Having time- and cost-effective mechanisms for resolving disputes is critical because excessively long and expensive proceedings may defeat the very purpose of bringing a case to formal institutions, making them unattractive and unaffordable. In fact, correlations have been established between judicial efficiency and facilitated entrepreneurial activity. Evidence also suggests that under a more effective court system businesses are likely to have greater access to finance and borrow more. The quality of the dispute resolution process also matters. Claims should be considered with due care by credible institutions capable of issuing sound judgments. It was found that in economies with low confidence in court systems, firms are less willing to expand their businesses and look for alternative trade partners. To attract more investors, economies therefore should ensure not only judiciaries’ effectiveness but also their strength and reliability."},{"id":"IndicatorName","value":"B-READY: Dispute Resolution Pillar 2: Public Services for Dispute Resolution"},{"id":"License_Type","value":"CC BY-4.0"},{"id":"License_URL","value":"https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/public-licenses#cc-by"},{"id":"Longdefinition","value":"B-READY focuses on ten topics that are organized following the life cycle of the firm and its participation in the market while opening, operating (or expanding), and closing (or reorganizing) a business.  The Dispute Resolution topic measures efficiency and quality of the resolution of commercial disputes—those arising in the business context between firms—across three different dimensions, or pillars. The second pillar focuses on judicial organizational structure, courts’ digitization and transparency, as well as ADR-related services, thus capturing the de facto provision of public services."},{"id":"Periodicity","value":"Annual"},{"id":"Referenceperiod","value":"2025-2025"},{"id":"Shortdefinition","value":"B-READY focuses on ten topics that are organized following the life cycle of the firm and its participation in the market while opening, operating (or expanding), and closing (or reorganizing) a business.  The Dispute Resolution topic measures efficiency and quality of the resolution of commercial disputes—those arising in the business context between firms—across three different dimensions, or pillars. The second pillar focuses on judicial organizational structure, courts’ digitization and transparency, as well as ADR-related services, thus capturing the de facto provision of public services."},{"id":"Source","value":"Business Ready (B-READY) project, World Bank (WB), uri: https://www.worldbank.org/en/businessready"},{"id":"Statisticalconceptandmethodology","value":"Methodology: B-READY is designed for benchmarking across economies. This requires applying a homogeneous methodology to economies at different income levels and in different geographic locations, and quantifying business environment conditions with indicators that can be aggregated into comparable scores.\u000a\u000aB-READY collects both de jure information and de facto measures. De jure data are collected through expert consultations, while de facto data are collected through both expert consultations and firm-level surveys. These granular data provide a wealth of information that can guide specific policy reforms. They are presented in the B-READY report and, in more detail, on the Business Ready website through accessible tools, including economy profiles.\u000a\u000aAll data obtained from experts or firms are collected in raw form and then converted to scores that can be combined with other scores. The scoring methodology is designed to allow aggregation that preserves absolute cardinal differences between economies, rather than producing purely ordinal or relative rankings.\u000a\u000aThe granular data are aggregated into topic-specific pillar scores, topic scores, and overall pillar scores, each ranging from 0 to 100 (where 100 represents the best performance). Each of the ten B-READY topics has three topic-specific pillars: Regulatory Framework, Public Services, and Operational Efficiency. A topic-specific pillar score is built from the points assigned to sets of indicators, organized in categories by subject matter. The topic score is the average of its three topic-specific pillar scores, and each overall pillar score is the average of the corresponding topic-specific pillar scores across the ten topics.\u000a\u000aVintage and comparability: Values correspond to the Business Ready 2025 report (101 economies; B-READY data file version December 10, 2025), the second edition of a three-year rollout (2024-2026) during which coverage expands and the methodology is refined annually (see B-READY Methodology Handbook, Final Second Edition, December 2025). Scores from the Business Ready 2024 report (50 economies) are not included in WDI because these refinements affect comparability across editions, and B-READY does not present its scores as a time series. The 2024 edition remains available on the B-READY website: https://www.worldbank.org/en/businessready/reports. The year shown refers to the report edition, not the exact period of data collection.\u000a\u000aDetails about the B-READY methodology are available on the project website: https://www.worldbank.org/en/businessready/methodology#1"},{"id":"Topic","value":"Private Sector & Trade: Business environment"},{"id":"Unitofmeasure","value":"0-100 scale"}]}]}]}]}