The Doing Business project provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 190 economies andselected cities at the subnational and regional level.

The Doing Business project, launched in 2002, looks at domestic small and medium-size companies and measures the regulationsapplying to them through their life cycle.

Doing Business captures several important dimensions of the regulatory environment as it applies to local rms. It providesquantitative indicators on regulation for starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registeringproperty, getting credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and resolvinginsolvency. Doing Business also measures features of labor market regulation. Although Doing Business does not present rankingsof economies on the labor market regulation indicators or include the topic in the aggregate distance to frontier score or ranking onthe ease of doing business, it does present the data for these indicators.

The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) is located in the horn of Africa, bordering with Eritrea in the north, Sudan and South Sudan in the west, Somalia and Kenya in the south and Somalia and Djibouti in the east. The total land area is 999,541 Km2 (385,925 sq. miles) and is home to 73 million inhabitants. It covers an area of 1,127,127 square kilometers, of which an estimated 34% is agricultural, 9.6% is arable, an estimated 3.6 is forested, and 48.9% is covered by woodlands and shrubs. Only 4.5% of arable land is irrigated. Protected areas encompass 14% of Ethiopia„s land area. An estimated 15 of Ethiopia„s approximately 80.7 million people live in urban areas, making it one of the least urbanized counties in the world.