Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- I. Introduction -- II. Understanding the Challenges to Reform -- Why Investment Climate Reforms Are Challenging -- Different Reforms and Country Conditions, Different Challenges -- Political challenges -- Institutional challenges -- III. Initiating and Designing Reform -- Identifying Priorities for Reform -- Using political change and crisis as catalysts -- Seizing Opportunities to Get Reform onto the Policy Agenda -- Using political change and crisis as catalysts -- Taking advantage of spillovers from trade andproduct market reforms -- Generating new information to create demandfor change -- Securing political leadership -- Role of donors -- Starting with Reforms That Are Both Credibleand Feasible -- Setting the pace of reform-radical or incremental? -- Using pilots and sector-specific reforms as learningand demonstration tools -- Building Coalitions to Support Reform -- Leveraging and empowering supporters -- Diffusing opposition -- IV. Implementing and Sustaining Reform -- Strengthening Incentives and Capacity -- Bringing in new leadership and reform teams -- Revitalizing institutions -- Creating performance targets and incentives -- Contracting out to the private sector -- Harnessing information technology -- Creating Oversight Mechanisms to Sustain Reform -- Improving Monitoring -- V. Conclusions -- Main Lessons -- Future Work -- VI. Selected Reform Case Studies -- Reforming Labor Regulations in Colombia -- Reform context -- Initiating reform -- Implementing and sustaining reform -- Reform outcomes -- Conclusions -- Inspections Reform in Latvia -- Reform context -- Initiating reform -- Implementing and sustaining reform -- Reform outcomes -- Conclusions -- Regulatory Reform in Mexico -- Reform context -- Initiating reform -- Implementing and sustaining reform -- Reform outcomes -- Conclusions.

Reforming Business Registration in Pakistan -- Reform context -- Initiating reform -- Implementing and sustaining reform -- Reform outcomes -- Conclusions -- Enterprise Reform in Vietnam -- Reform context -- Initiating reform -- Implementing and sustaining reform -- Reform outcomes -- Conclusions -- Land Market Reform: Improving Access to Land and Buildings -- Reform context -- Key issues for investors -- Solutions -- Conclusions -- References.