Obstacles of Doing Business in Province of Zanjan

This paper aims to investigate obstacles of doing business in province of Zanjan. For this purpose، three complementary methods are used: first، surveying the business environment from the businessmen’s perspectives، using «Enterprise Survey» questionary; second، studying realized indices of business environment; and third، evaluating investors’ complaints submitted to Investment Committee of Province. Results indicate that existence of land opponents; complicatedness of dealing with permits; difficulty of getting credit; disputes between business owners and authorities of social security organization; and irregular import of Chinese products are the main obstacles of investment in zanjan.