{"page":1,"pages":1,"per_page":"5000","total":13,"source":[{"id":"2","name":"World Development Indicators","concept":[{"id":"Series","variable":[{"id":"IC.BRE.P2.PS","metatype":[{"id":"Dataset","value":"WB_WDI"},{"id":"Developmentrelevance","value":"The business environment can be defined as the set of conditions outside a firm’s control that have a significant influence on how businesses behave and perform throughout their life cycle. This set of conditions can be very large, from macroeconomic policy to microeconomic rules. B-READY concentrates on the regulatory framework and public service provision at the microeconomic level: that is, as enacted and implemented to directly affect firms’ behavior and performance. B-READY assesses an economy’s business environment by focusing on the regulatory framework and the provision of related public services directed at firms and markets, as well as the efficiency with which regulatory framework and public services are combined in practice. B-READY seeks a balanced approach when assessing the business environment: between ease of conducting a business and broader private sector benefits, between regulatory framework and public services, between de jure laws and regulations and de facto practical implementation, and between data representativeness and data comparability. For nearly all indicators, the regulatory framework pillar captures de jure information, and the public services and efficiency pillars capture de facto information."},{"id":"IndicatorName","value":"B-READY: Pillar 2: Public Services"},{"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 assesses the economy’s business environment by focusing on the regulatory framework and the provision of related public services for firms and markets, as well as the operational efficiency with which they are combined in practice. B-READY’s three pillars—the Regulatory Framework, Public Services, and Operational Efficiency. Public Services refers to both the facilities that governments provide directly or through private firms to support compliance with regulations and the critical institutions and infrastructure that enable business activities. Public services considered by B-READY are limited to the scope of the business environment areas related to the life cycle of the firm."},{"id":"Periodicity","value":"Annual"},{"id":"Referenceperiod","value":"2025-2025"},{"id":"Shortdefinition","value":"B-READY assesses the economy’s business environment by focusing on the regulatory framework and the provision of related public services for firms and markets, as well as the operational efficiency with which they are combined in practice. B-READY’s three pillars—the Regulatory Framework, Public Services, and Operational Efficiency. Public Services refers to both the facilities that governments provide directly or through private firms to support compliance with regulations and the critical institutions and infrastructure that enable business activities. Public services considered by B-READY are limited to the scope of the business environment areas related to the life cycle of the firm."},{"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"}]}]}]}]}