Algeria

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Algeria

This page summarizes Doing Business 2013 data for Algeria. The first table lists the overall "Ease of Doing Business" rank (out of 185 economies) and the rankings by each topic. It also lists the economy's distance to frontier (DTF)** measure. The rest of the tables summarize the key indicators for each topic and benchmark against regional and high-income economy (OECD) averages.

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Starting a Business
Dealing with Construction Permits
Getting Electricity
Registering Property
Getting Credit
Protecting Investors
Paying Taxes
Trading Across Borders
Enforcing Contracts
Resolving Insolvency
Region Middle East & North Africa
Income Category Upper middle income
Population 35,980,193
GNI Per Capita (US$) 4,470
Doing Business 2013 Rank Doing Business 2012 Rank Change in Rank
152 150 down -2

Doing Business 2013 DTF** (% points) Doing Business 2012 DTF** (% points) Improvement in DTF** (% points)
52.1 51.4 down 0.7
Topic Rankings DB 2013 Rank DB 2012 Rank Change in Rank
Starting a Business 156 155 up -1
Dealing with Construction Permits 138 137 up -1
Getting Electricity 165 161 up -4
Registering Property 172 172 No change
Getting Credit 129 152 up 23
Protecting Investors 82 79 up -3
Paying Taxes 170 165 up -5
Trading Across Borders 129 128 up -1
Enforcing Contracts 126 125 up -1
Resolving Insolvency 62 60 up -2

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Measures on credit information sharing and the legal rights of borrowers and lenders are shown below. The Legal Rights Index ranges from 0-10, with higher scores indicating that those laws are better designed to expand access to credit. The Credit Information Index measures the scope, access and quality of credit information available through public registries or private bureaus. It ranges from 0-6, with higher values indicating that more credit information is available from a public registry or private bureau.

DB 2013 Rank 129 DB 2012 Rank 152 Change in Rank up23
DB 2013 DTF** (% points) 43.8 DB 2012 DTF** (% points) 37.5 Improvement in DTF** (% points) up6.3
Indicator Algeria Middle East & North Africa OECD

This index measures the degree to which collateral and bankruptcy laws protect the rights of borrowers and lenders and thus facilitate lending.

View methodology Strength of legal rights index (0-10)
3 3 7

This index measures rules and practices affecting the coverage, scope and accessibility of credit information available through either a public credit registry or a private credit bureau.

View methodology Depth of credit information index (0-6)
4 4 5

This indicator reports the number of individuals and firms listed in a public credit registry with information on their borrowing history from the past 5 years.

View methodology Public registry coverage (% of adults)
2.3 8.6 10.2

This indicator reports the number of individuals and firms listed by a private credit bureau with information on their borrowing history from the past 5 years.

View methodology Private bureau coverage (% of adults)
0.0 9.7 67.4
Depth of credit information index (0-6) Private credit bureau Public credit registry Score
Are data on both firms and individuals distributed? No Yes 1
Are both positive and negative data distributed? No Yes 1
Does the registry distribute credit information from retailers, trade creditors or utility companies as well as financial institutions? No No 0
Are more than 2 years of historical credit information distributed? No No 0
Is data on all loans below 1% of income per capita distributed? No Yes 1
Is it guaranteed by law that borrowers can inspect their data in the largest credit registry? No Yes 1
Score ("yes" to either public bureau or private registry) 4
Strength of legal rights index (0-10)
Can any business use movable assets as collateral while keeping possession of the assets; and any financial institution accept such assets as collateral ? Yes
Does the law allow businesses to grant a non possessory security right in a single category of movable assets, without requiring a specific description of collateral? No
Does the law allow businesses to grant a non possessory security right in substantially all of its assets, without requiring a specific description of collateral? Yes
May a security right extend to future or after-acquired assets, and may it extend automatically to the products, proceeds or replacements of the original assets ? No
Is a general description of debts and obligations permitted in collateral agreements; can all types of debts and obligations be secured between parties; and can the collateral agreement include a maximum amount for which the assets are encumbered? Yes
Is a collateral registry in operation, that is unified geographically and by asset type, with an electronic database indexed by debtor's names? No
Are secured creditors paid first (i.e. before general tax claims and employee claims) when a debtor defaults outside an insolvency procedure? No
Are secured creditors paid first (i.e. before general tax claims and employee claims) when a business is liquidated? No
Are secured creditors either not subject to an automatic stay on enforcement when a debtor enters a court-supervised reorganization procedure, or does the law provides secured creditors with grounds for relief from an automatic stay or sets a time limit to it? No
Does the law allow parties to agree in a collateral agreement that the lender may enforce its security right out of court, at the time a security interest is created? No
Score (number of "yes" responses) 3
Coverage Private credit bureau Public credit registry
Number of individuals0486,013
Number of firms083,409
Percent of total 0.0 2.3

** The distance to frontier (DTF) measure shows the distance of each economy to the "frontier," which represents the highest performance observed on each of the indicators across all economies included in Doing Business since each indicator was included in Doing Business. An economy’s distance to frontier is indicated on a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 represents the lowest performance and 100 the frontier. Read more...

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