Kenya - 2018 - Trade, Industry and Investment

Doing Business 2018

Kenya, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives

The doing business project provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 190 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level. It captures several important dimensions of the regulatory environment as it applies to local firms. It provides quantitative indicators on regulation for starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency. Doing Business also measures features of labour market regulation. The statistical report in this document was derived from data collected for the project in June 2017. It captures procedures to legally start and operate a company in Kenya.

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January 2022

The doing business project provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 190 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level. It captures several important dimensions of the regulatory environment as it applies to local firms. It provides quantitative indicators on regulation for starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency. Doing Business also measures features of labour market regulation. The statistical report in this document was derived from data collected for the project in June 2017. It captures procedures to legally start and operate a company in Kenya.

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