[20211029]IF11959_世界银行《营商环境报告》.pdf

https:/crsreports.congress.gov October 29, 2021The World Banks Doing Business ReportIn September 2021, the World Bank announced it was discontinuing its annual Doing Business Report (DBR) after nearly two decades of publication. The DBR attempts to quantitatively measure the “ease of doing business” in countries around the world, focusing on business regulations and property rights protections. The World Bank canceled the report because an independent investigation found that senior World Bank officials improperly influenced results in previous iterations of report, including to improve Chinas ranking. Governments and investors take these DBR rankings seriously, and the report has been credited with driving pro-growth reforms in developing countries. The report also has been controversial even before the most recent investigations, with critics arguing, among other things, that the report penalizes countries for adopting labor and safety protections. The circumstances surrounding the cancellation of the DBR raise a number of issues for Congress, including the value of the DBR as a resource, the research independence of international organizations, leadership roles at the internati