Getting credit, legal rights index - Doing business - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators

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The strength of legal rights index measures the degree to which collateral and bankruptcy laws protect the rights of borrowers and lenders and thus facilitate lending. For more information, visit http://www.doingbusiness.org/MethodologySurveys/. Source: World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/).

Rank	Country	Value
Getting credit, legal rights index - Doing business - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators (2009)
1	Kenya	10
2	South Africa	9
3	Zambia	9
4	Malawi	8
5	Nigeria	8
6	Namibia	8
7	Tanzania	8
8	Botswana	7
9	Ghana	7
10	Lesotho	7
11	Zimbabwe	7
12	Uganda	7
13	Swaziland	6
14	Sudan	5
15	Gambia	5
16	Mauritius	5
17	Sub-Saharan Africa	4.38
18	Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa	4.28
19	Africa	4.27
20	Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa and Nigeria	4.20
21	Angola	4
22	Ethiopia	4
23	Liberia	4
24	Sierra Leone	4
25	Seychelles	4
26	Guinea-Bissau	3
27	Equatorial Guinea	3
28	Morocco	3
29	Ivory Coast	3
30	Mauritania	3
31	North Africa	3
32	Niger	3
33	Senegal	3
34	Benin	3
35	Burkina Faso	3
36	Sao Tome and Principe	3
37	Central African Republic	3
38	Cameroon	3
39	Republic of the Congo	3
40	Chad	3
41	Togo	3
42	Mali	3
43	Comoros	3
44	Algeria	3
45	Egypt	3
46	Gabon	3
47	Democratic Republic of the Congo	3
48	Guinea	3
49	Tunisia	3
50	Madagascar	2
51	Cape Verde	2
52	Rwanda	2
53	Burundi	2
54	Eritrea	2
55	Mozambique	2
56	Djibouti	1

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