Document Type : ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Authors

• Seyed Nezamuddin Makiyan
• Mehdi Emami Meybodi
• Samaneh Eshraty
• Zohreh Ahmadi

Abstract

Many factors affect on the performance of economic activities. Some of these factors are out of the control which areknown in economic literature as Doing Business. Although this concept was used in economic history thought, but from the 1990s the literature of doing business has been concerned by governments and international economic institutions. This study aims to investigate andcompare the most important factors, i.e.: starting a business, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders and enforcing contracts which improve the environment of doing business for growth.We examine such a factorsbetween MENA Islamic countries and the countries of OECD in the period of 2007-2012. The method which is used, is panel data regression analyses. Results indicate that the Islamic countries must have more attention to the factors of trading across borders and getting credit for improvement of ease of doing business.

Keywords

• Doing Business
• MENA Islamic Countries
• Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)