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Interest in business enabling environment reform has increased exponentially over the last several years, largely due to the success of the World Bank’s Doing Business initiative. By creating a set of simple to understand quantitative benchmarks and providing evidence of the link to economic growth, this initiative raised the profile of business enabling environment reform. When the report added country ranks, heralding some and shaming others, the
governments began to want to improve their scores so the imperative for reform in this area grew further.
With the increased attention on business environment reform, the BizCLIR project was receiving increased demand for its assessments; however, the dialogue with missions and government officials usually revolved around improving their Doing Business rankings. As a result, in 2007, USAID decided to reorganize the report around the ten Doing Business topics, in consultation with the team at the World Bank. (The indicators that were used were simply sorted into the existing Doing Business topics.) This change made it easier for missions and governments to recognize the links between the more detailed assessments and the country benchmarks.
governments began to want to improve their scores so the imperative for reform in this area grew further. With the increased attention on business environment reform, the BizCLIR project was receiving increased demand for its assessments; however, the dialogue with missions and government officials usually revolved around improving their Doing Business rankings. As a result, in 2007, USAID decided to reorganize the report around the ten Doing Business topics, in consultation with the team at the World Bank. (The indicators that were used were simply sorted into the existing Doing Business topics.) This change made it easier for missions and governments to recognize the links between the more detailed assessments and the country benchmarks.