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.