{"page":1,"pages":1,"per_page":"5000","total":13,"source":[{"id":"2","name":"World Development Indicators","concept":[{"id":"Series","variable":[{"id":"IC.BRE.MC.P2","metatype":[{"id":"Dataset","value":"WB_WDI"},{"id":"Developmentrelevance","value":"There is substantial economic evidence that a fair level of market competition spurs economic growth by increasing industry and firm innovation and productivity, leading to better products, more and better jobs, and higher incomes.  By affecting market entry and exit, competition stimulates product innovation and service quality, protects consumers, and forces market operators to provide their products and services at cost. But competition is rarely perfect. Markets fail either due to firms’ behaviors or government interventions. Market power—a firm’s ability to raise prices well above cost, offer a low-quality good or service, and drive out competition—must be kept in check."},{"id":"IndicatorName","value":"B-READY: Market Competition Pillar 2: Public Services that Promote Market Competition"},{"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 Market Competition topic measures good practices related to the enforcement of competition policy, intellectual property rights and innovation policy, and regulations that focus on improving competition and innovation in markets where the government is a purchaser of services or goods, across the three different pillars. The second pillar measures the adequacy of public services that promote market competition, thus assessing the de facto provision of services that create an equal level of playing field in markets, and that foster and promote innovation."},{"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 Market Competition topic measures good practices related to the enforcement of competition policy, intellectual property rights and innovation policy, and regulations that focus on improving competition and innovation in markets where the government is a purchaser of services or goods, across the three different pillars. The second pillar measures the adequacy of public services that promote market competition, thus assessing the de facto provision of services that create an equal level of playing field in markets, and that foster and promote innovation."},{"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"}]}]}]}]}