The World Bank Group’s Doing Business project provided a measure of the “Ease of Doing Business” through a set of objective indicators that focus on the impacts of laws, regulations and their enforcement across 190 economies. 

Pakistan has been consistently making efforts to improve its business environment. Since 2016, almost 300 reforms have been implemented to improve the investment climate in the country. Resultantly, Pakistan improved 39 positions in EODB ranking from 2018 to 2020 and was placed at 108 th position. In 2021 Pakistan was recognized as the top reformer in South Asia and sixth reformer in the world along with Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Togo, Bahrain, Tajikistan, Kuwait, China, India, and Nigeria.

DB2020 report recognized significant reform improvement in six categories namely “starting a business”, “dealing with construction permits”, “getting electricity”, “registering property”, “paying taxes” and “trading across borders”.

Indicator	Positions Jumped	DB20 Rank	DB19 Rank
Overall - out of 190	28	108	136
Starting a business (reform)	58	72	130
Dealing with construction Permits	54	112	166
Getting electricity (reform)	44	123	167
Registering property	10	151	161
Paying Taxes	12	161	173
Trading Across Borders	31	111	142