Ukraine

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Ukraine

This page summarizes Doing Business 2013 data for the Ukraine. 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 Eastern Europe & Central Asia
Income Category Lower middle income
Population 45,706,100
GNI Per Capita (US$) 3,120
Doing Business 2013 Rank Doing Business 2012 Rank Change in Rank
137 152 down 15

Doing Business 2013 DTF** (% points) Doing Business 2012 DTF** (% points) Improvement in DTF** (% points)
53.5 48.9 down 4.6
Topic Rankings DB 2013 Rank DB 2012 Rank Change in Rank
Starting a Business 50 116 up 66
Dealing with Construction Permits 183 182 up -1
Getting Electricity 166 170 up 4
Registering Property 149 168 up 19
Getting Credit 23 23 No change
Protecting Investors 117 114 up -3
Paying Taxes 165 183 up 18
Trading Across Borders 145 144 up -1
Enforcing Contracts 42 44 up 2
Resolving Insolvency 157 158 up 1

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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 23 DB 2012 Rank 23 Change in Rank 0
DB 2013 DTF** (% points) 81.3 DB 2012 DTF** (% points) 81.3 Improvement in DTF** (% points) 0.0
Indicator Ukraine Eastern Europe & Central Asia 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)
9 7 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 5 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)
0.0 17.3 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)
23.3 29.8 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 No 0
Are both positive and negative data distributed? Yes No 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? Yes No 1
Is data on all loans below 1% of income per capita distributed? Yes No 1
Is it guaranteed by law that borrowers can inspect their data in the largest credit registry? Yes No 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? Yes
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 ? Yes
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? Yes
Are secured creditors paid first (i.e. before general tax claims and employee claims) when a debtor defaults outside an insolvency procedure? Yes
Are secured creditors paid first (i.e. before general tax claims and employee claims) when a business is liquidated? Yes
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? Yes
Score (number of "yes" responses) 9
Coverage Private credit bureau Public credit registry
Number of individuals7,500,0000
Number of firms00
Percent of total 23.3 0.0

** 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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