Doing Business – the brainchild of, among others, my Harvard colleague Andrei Shleifer and Simeon Djankov, a World Bank staffer who later became Bulgaria’s finance minister – measures such indicators as the time and cost required to register a business, pay taxes, trade across borders, obtain a loan, get a construction license, or enforce a contract. The data are provided by law firms, which complete a questionnaire about the legal and administrative requirements of performing these tasks.
《营商环境报告》是我的哈佛同事施莱弗（Andrei Shleifer）和徳扬科夫（Simeon Djankov）提出的，后者曾是世界银行职员，后来成为保加利亚财政部长。该报告衡量一系列指标，比如注册企业、纳税、跨境贸易、获得贷款、获得建筑执照和执行合同等行为所需要的时间和成本。数据由律师事务所提供，后者填写关于完成这些任务所需满足的法律和行政要求的调查问卷。