Table 4.1 Ease of Doing Business in Ghana 1.0 Starting a business 1.1 number of procedures 1.2 time (days) 1.3 cost (% of income per capita) 2.0 Registering property 2.1 number of procedures 2.2 time (days) 2.3 cost (% of property value) 3.0 Getting credit 3.1 strength of legal rights index (0-10) 3.2 depth of credit information index (0-6) 3.3 public registry coverage (% of adults) 3.4 private bureau coverage (% of adults) 4.0 Enforcing contracts 4.1 time (days) 4.2 cost (% of claim) 4.3 procedures (number) 2011 Sub-saharan average (2011) 7 12 17.3 8 37 81.2 5 34 0.7 6 65 9.4 8 6 3 2 0.0 3.2 3.3 5.0 487 23 36 655 50 39 The project is also assisting the RGD to clean up the data on businesses registered in the country and migrate credible, reliable and accurate data on businesses into its database to ensure efficiency and trustworthiness into the system. Non-Ghanaians in retail business Foreigners are engaged in retailing, petty trading, hawking and selling from kiosks in direct contravention of Section 18 of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre Act, 1994 (Act 478). In recent times the Ghana Indigenous Business Association (GIBA) has had cause to complain about the infiltration of foreigners into the retail business sector. An Inter Agency Task Force has been established by the GIPC to monitor the activities of non-Ghanaians in the trading sector and ensure that: • The provisions relating to the areas reserved for Ghanaians under Section 18 of Sixth Annual APRM Progress Report: January – December 2011 66