'In publishing Doing Business, the World Bank is producing a public good: measurements of regulatory performance that may become as indispensable to reformers and to academics as national income accounts.' - Financial Times

'The new report is designed largely as a tool for helping governments to make the kinds of reforms they need to attract fresh foreign investment, and to raise their nations' living standards.' - Journal of Commerce

'A helpful exercise in quantifying business regulations and their costs.' - The Economist