Doing Business in Juba 2011 measuresbusiness regulations and their enforcement in Juba, Southern Sudan. It is the first city profile in Southern Sudan.

Comparisons with 183 other economies are based on Doing Business 2011: Making a Difference for Entrepreneurs, the eighth in a series of annual reports published by the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation.

The indicators in Doing Business in Juba 2011 are also comparable with 346 cities in 38 economies benchmarked in other subnational Doing Business studies. All data and reports are available at www.doingbusiness.org.

Doing Business investigates the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it.

Doing Business in Juba 2011 measures regulations affecting 9 stages of the life of a small or medium-size business: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, and closing a business. The data in Doing Business in Juba 2011 are current as of
November 2010.