Protecting investors, director liability index in Cape Verde
Cape Verde: Protecting investors, director liability index was 5 in 2012. ▬ Flat
Protecting investors, director liability index in Cape Verde, 2005–2012
Source: World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/).
Analysis
The most recent figure for protecting investors, director liability index in Cape Verde is 5, measured in 2012. That is the highest value across all 8 years on record.
That represents a change of unchanged over ten years.
Cape Verde ranks 16th of 51 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| 2010s | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 |
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More private sector data for Cape Verde
- Merchandise trade 70.0% (2025)
- Food imports 32.6% (2024)
- Manufactures imports 50.8% (2024)
- Merchandise imports 2.04 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 86.4% (2024)
- Manufactures exports 13.6% (2024)
- Merchandise exports 96.00 million current US$ (2025)
- Commercial service exports 916.28 million current US$ (2025)
- Transport services 31.7% (2025)
- Computer, communications and other services 34.6% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is protecting investors, director liability index in Cape Verde?
- Protecting investors, director liability index in Cape Verde was 5 in 2012, according to World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/).
- What is the highest protecting investors, director liability index recorded in Cape Verde?
- The highest recorded value was 5 in 2005.
- What is the lowest protecting investors, director liability index recorded in Cape Verde?
- The lowest recorded value was 5 in 2005.
- How does Cape Verde rank for protecting investors, director liability index?
- Cape Verde ranks 16th out of 51 countries with data for 2012.
- Is protecting investors, director liability index rising or falling in Cape Verde?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Cape Verde data come from?
- The figures come from World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/), published as part of Protecting investors, director liability index. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
Director liability index measures a plaintiff’s ability to hold directors of firms liable for damages to the company, that is, measures the strength of minority shareholder protections against directors’ misuse of corporate assets for personal gain. The indicators distinguish 3 dimensions of investor protection: transparency of transactions (extent of disclosure index), liability for self-dealing (extent of director liability index) and shareholders’ ability to sue officers and directors for misconduct (ease of shareholder suits index). The data come from a survey of corporate lawyers and are based on company laws, court rules of evidence and securities regulations. For more information, visit http://www.doingbusiness.org/MethodologySurveys/.