Closing a business, recovery rate (cents on the dollar) - Doing business - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators



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The recovery rate is recorded as cents on the dollar recouped by creditors through the bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings. The calculation takes into account whether the business emerges from the proceedings as a going concern as well as costs and the loss in value due to the time spent closing down. If the business keeps operating, no value is lost on the initial claim, set at 100 cents on the dollar. If it does not, the initial 100 cents on the dollar are reduced to 70 cents on the dollar. Then the official costs of the insolvency procedure are deducted (1 cent for each percentage of the initial value). Finally, the value lost as a result of the time the money remains tied up in insolvency proceedings is taken into account, including the loss of value due to depreciation of the hotel furniture. Consistent with international accounting practice, the depreciation rate for furniture is taken to be 20%. The furniture is assumed to account for a quarter of the total value of assets. The recovery rate is the present value of the remaining proceeds, based on end-2006 lending rates from the International Monetary Fund’s International Financial Statistics, supplemented with data from central banks. For more information, visit http://www.doingbusiness.org/MethodologySurveys/. Source: World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/).
Closing a business, recovery rate (cents on the dollar) - Doing business - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators (2009)

Rank

Country

Value

1Botswana60.30
2Tunisia52.30
3Algeria41.70
4Uganda41.10
5Namibia39.50
6North Africa36.47
7Morocco35.10
8Swaziland34.90
9Ivory Coast34
10Lesotho33.90
11Mauritius33.60
12South Africa32.20
13Ethiopia32.20
14Senegal31.60
15Kenya31.60
16Zambia30.20
17Nigeria28
18Togo26.60
19Cameroon25.50
20Ghana24
21Guinea22
22Burkina Faso21.70
23Tanzania21.30
24Mali20.90
25Republic of the Congo20.40
26Gambia19.50
27Africa18.47
28Sub-Saharan Africa16.94
29Egypt16.80
30Benin16.70
31Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa16.60
32Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa and Nigeria16.35
33Djibouti15.90
34Mozambique15.20
35Gabon15.20
36Malawi15.10
37Niger14
38Angola10
39Sierra Leone8.50
40Liberia8.30
41Mauritania6.70
42Democratic Republic of the Congo5.40
43Madagascar0
44Equatorial Guinea0
45Guinea-Bissau0
46Rwanda0
47Sudan0
48Eritrea0
49Sao Tome and Principe0
50Seychelles0
51Chad0
52Cape Verde0
53Comoros0
54Central African Republic0
55Burundi0
56Zimbabwe0
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