Doing Business: Independent Evaluation: Taking the Measure by World Bank

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This autonomous assessment of the Doing enterprise signs assesses the equipment and tactics used to build the symptoms, their relevance to improvement results, and their usefulness to coverage makers and different stakeholders. It makes innovations for bettering the gathering and presentation of knowledge and for larger readability in speaking what the symptoms can and can't trap.

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7 For employing Bank Group staff in 6 out workers and getting credit, in all seven of 13 countries reported case study countries, Doing Business dissatisfaction with DB’s 2007 published values that differed process for validating from at least one questionnaire, based data. on further consultation by the DB staff 16 with the informants and/or review of legislation. 8 Informants in Nigeria gave broad estimates of time, so DB staff calculated it based on a review of the current changes in legislation.

Significantly lower than common law countries . . Are the DB indicators adding new information? A cross-country indicator whose rankings were perfectly correlated with per capita income (or some other underlying characteristic) would not add new information; one could predict a country’s ranking by knowing its per capita income. For DB indicators, per capita income levels only partly explain the rankings. 14 . . 65) with countries can still score per capita income in the low- and well on the DB indicators.

Why, then, do the informants participate? 2, said participation would enhance their firm’s credibility or prestige (46 percent). Another third said they wanted to share their experience (33 percent), and the rest said they were interested in the intellectual exercise, had free time, or were asked to participate by somebody else. Informants generally Several lawyers mentioned they had participate for prestige or gained clients who heard of them to share experience. through the questionnaire, although attracting clients was not their objective in participating.

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