Paraguay

Ease of Doing Business in

Paraguay

This page summarizes Doing Business 2013 data for Paraguay. 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.

Economy Overview

Region Latin America & Caribbean
Income Category Lower middle income
Population 6,568,290
GNI Per Capita (US$) 2,970
Doing Business 2013 Rank Doing Business 2012 Rank Change in Rank
103 100 down -3

Doing Business 2013 DTF** (% points) Doing Business 2012 DTF** (% points) Improvement in DTF** (% points)
58.3 58.4 down -0.1
Topic Rankings DB 2013 Rank DB 2012 Rank Change in Rank
Starting a Business 111 106 up -5
Dealing with Construction Permits 71 70 up -1
Getting Electricity 26 24 up -2
Registering Property 67 66 up -1
Getting Credit 83 80 up -3
Protecting Investors 70 66 up -4
Paying Taxes 141 130 up -11
Trading Across Borders 155 155 No change
Enforcing Contracts 106 106 No change
Resolving Insolvency 144 143 up -1

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Getting Electricity

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The challenges required for a business to obtain a permanent electricity connection for a newly constructed warehouse are shown below. Included are the number of steps, time, and cost.

DB 2013 Rank 26 DB 2012 Rank 24 Change in Rank down-2
DB 2013 DTF** (% points) 87.5 DB 2012 DTF** (% points) 87.5 Improvement in DTF** (% points) 0.0
Indicator Paraguay Latin America & Caribbean OECD

The number of procedures to obtain a permanent electricity connection. A procedure is defined as any interaction of the company employees or the company’s main electrician with external parties.

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Procedures (number)
4 5 5

The number of days to obtain a permanent electricity connection. The measure captures the median duration that the electricity utility and experts indicate is necessary in practice, rather than required by law, to complete a procedure.

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Time (days)
53 66 98

The cost is recorded as a percentage of the economy’s income per capita. Costs are recorded exclusive of value added tax.

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Cost (% of income per capita)
221.7 559.0 93.0
No. Procedure Time to Complete Associated Costs
1 Before submitting the official application the customer's electrician submits a request for a feasibility study with ANDE (consulta previa tecnica) 25 calendar days no charge
2 The customer's electrician submits the official service application with ANDE 7 calendar days PYG 5,431,971.3
3 The customer or his electricians purchases the necessary material for the connection works and installs it 14 calendar days USD 5,500.0
4 ANDE inspects the transformer, does the connection works and installs the meter 7 calendar days no charge

** 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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