South American Business Environment Cost Index: reforms for Brazil

The World Bank's Ease-of-Doing-Business is the most popular instrument for measuring the conditions of a country's business environment. While useful for directing investments and guiding reforms, researchers associate the EDBI with problems such as: very different country analyses, data quality and miscalculations. The data made available in this repository make it possible to build a new index that represents the costs of doing business in South American countries. The following data are available: (1) Expert influence; (2) Assessments carried out, as well as their conversion into matrices; (3) Calculation of consensus among experts, (4) EDBI Sub-Indices; (5) Indicators and data from the Uncertainty Analysis. The application of the Principal Component Analysis to the data (4) allows obtaining the weight of the Indicators available in (5).