Facilitating Smallholder Farmers’ Market Access
In the OIC Member Countries
107
perceptions about the government’s ability to control grand and petty corruption and to
block efforts to use public position for private gain.185
As the figure shows, Jordan scores well compared to its neighbors. For each measure of
governance, with the exception of voice and accountability, Jordan falls into the top half of
the nearly 200 countries covered.
reports on a separate set of perceptions about the strength of the institutions
that Jordan has put into place to support the business environment. The indicators are
constructed from business surveys, focusing on business regulations. Overall, Jordan ranks
119th out of 189 countries covered by the surveys, scoring poorly on credit access and
protecting investors, a topic discussed in greater detail later.
TABLE 20: COST OF DOING BUSINESS RANKINGS FOR JORDAN AND SELECTED OIC
COUNTRIES, 2014
Ease of Doing
Business
Starting a
Business
Getting
Credit
Protecting
Investors
Enforcing
Contracts
Kyrgyz Republic 68 12 13 22 70
Turkey 69 93 86 34 38
Azerbaijan 70 10 55 22 28
Morocco 87 39 109 115 83
Pakistan 110 105 73 34 158
Jordan 119 117 170 170 133
Indonesia 120 175 86 52 147
Egypt 128 50 86 147 156
Bangladesh 130 74 86 22 185
Uganda 132 151 42 115 117
Mozambique 139 95 130 52 145
Tajikistan 143 87 159 22 39
Uzbekistan 146 21 130 138 40
Nigeria 147 122 13 68 136
Madagascar 148 29 180 68 160
Côte d'Ivoire 167 115 130 157 88
Cameroon 168 132 109 128 175
Senegal 178 110 130 170 167
Source: World Bank 2013b.
185 Kaufmann, Kraay, and Mastruzzi (2009).