Across ASEAN countries, with the exception of Singapore, around half of national experts surveyed by GEM saw government policies and regulations as constraining factors for entrepreneurs — with the highest levels of dissatisfaction in Viet Nam (83 per cent) and Indonesia (71 per cent).' In Cambodia and Lao People’s Democratic Republic it can take more than 70 days to set up a business, compared with 2.5 days in Singapore (Figure 17). Similarly, while it takes 16 procedures to set up a business in the Philippines, it only takes three in Malaysia and Singapore (Figure 18).