Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Glossary and Conventions Used in this Report -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Preface -- Executive Summary -- The Underlying Framework of the DB Indicators -- Methodology and Data Reliability -- Motivating and Designing Reforms -- Implications for the Bank Group -- Recommendations -- Management Response -- Introduction -- Concurrence with the Broad Thrust of the Analysis and Recommendations -- Management Observations -- Paying Taxes Indicator -- Making Available Previously Published Data Sets -- Increasing the Number of Respondents -- Level of Regulation -- Conclusion -- Chairperson's Summary: Committee on Development Effectiveness (CODE) -- Background -- IEG Main Findings -- Draft Management Response -- DGE Statement -- Overall Conclusions and Next Steps -- IEG Evaluation and DB Report -- DB Indicators -- Regulation vs. Deregulation -- Disclaimer and Transparency -- Regulation Enforcement and Impact -- Country Rankings -- Paying Taxes Indicator -- Employing Workers Indicator -- Increasing Informants -- Nomenclature -- New Indicators and Subnational Regulation -- CHAPTER 1 The Ideas Behind the Indicators -- Evaluation Highlights -- Introduction -- Role of the Investment Climate in Private Sector Growth -- Three Principles Underlying What DB Measures -- Two Principles Underlying DB's Methodology -- Discrete and Aggregable Indicators -- Covers Formal, Domestically Owned Firms -- Endnotes -- CHAPTER 2 Collecting Information and Constructing the Rankings -- Evaluation Highlights -- Introduction -- The Number of Informants -- Qualifications and Motivations of Informants -- Validating the Data -- Publishing and Revising the Data -- Effects of Data Changes on Country Rankings and Top Reformers -- Constructing the Rankings -- Endnotes -- CHAPTER 3 What Do the Indicators Measure?.

Evaluation Highlights -- Introduction -- General Characteristics of the Indicators -- Is DB Rules-Based? -- Nomenclature -- Legal Origin -- Are the DB Indicators Adding New Information? -- Key Features of Selected Indicators -- Starting a Business -- Most Popular Indicator for Reform -- Is it Relevant and Important for Economic Outcomes? -- Paying Taxes -- Employing Workers -- Is Employing Workers Consistent with Accepted Labor Standards? -- Enforcing Contracts -- Most Disputes Do Not Wind up in Court -- Is it Important for Economic Outcomes? -- Getting credit -- Endnotes -- CHAPTER 4 Communicating and Using the Indicators -- Evaluation Highlights -- Introduction -- Presentation Style -- Communications Strategy -- A Tool for Regular Cross-Country Benchmarking -- A Catalyst for Dialogue -- A Guide to Policy Reform -- A Research Tool -- A Criterion for Operational Decisions -- An Addition to the Bank's Toolkit -- Endnotes -- CHAPTER 5 Findings and Recommendations -- Introduction -- The Framework Underlying the DB Indicators -- The Scope of the Indicators -- Reliability of Information -- Motivating and Designing Reforms -- Implications for the Bank Group -- Recommendations -- Appendixes -- Appendix A: Methodology -- 1. Analysis of DB Ratings and Underlying Raw Data -- 2. Country Case Studies -- 3. Validation Exercise -- 4. In-Depth Analysis of Five Indicators -- 5. Portfolio Review -- 6. Literature Review -- 7. Use and Communications -- Endnotes -- Appendix B: How Equitably do the Rankings Reward Reforms? -- How Do Reforms Affect the EODB Distribution? -- Does the Ranking System Distort Reform Priorities? -- Endnotes -- Appendix C: Differences Between Data in 2007 DB Report and DB Web Site (October 2007) for Same Data Collection Period -- Appendix D: Common Law/Civil Law Analysis -- What Explains the Differences? -- Controlling for Additional Factors.

Attachment D.1: Results of Regression Analysis for Test Differences Based on Legal Origin on Employing Workers and Paying Taxes -- Employing Workers -- Controlling for Welfare Preferences -- Creating a Continental Europe Origin Group -- Stratifying by Income Group -- Controlling for Small-Country Outliers -- Paying Taxes: Controlling for Additional Factors -- Endnotes -- Appendix E: Standard Interview Protocols -- Appendix E.1: Interview Protocol for Doing Business Informants -- Background Information -- Validity of Assumptions -- Survey Content and Structure -- Validity of Information in DB Report -- Closing -- Appendix E.2: Interview Protocol for Policy Makers and Senior Government Officials -- Introduction -- I. Background -- II. Relevance of the DBI -- III. Use of the DB indicators -- IV. Impact of DB indicators -- Bibliography -- Back Cover.

This independent evaluation of the Doing Business Indicators assesses the methods and processes used to construct the indicators, their relevance to development outcomes, and their usefulness to policy makers and other stakeholders. It makes recommendations for improving the collection and presentation of data and for greater clarity in communicating what the indicators can and cannot capture.

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