Just last month, US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew trumpeted Doing Business in congressional testimony justifying American support for multilateral development banks. More broadly, backing away from such a project would undermine the Bank’s promotion of rule-based systems and legal certainty – and would weaken the reformers in developing and emerging economies who seek to transform clientilist and patronage-based economies.
事实上，外包或取缔《营商环境报告》可能伤害世界银行的名誉。就在上个月，美国国防部长卢在国会听证中力挺《营商环境报告》以证明美国对多边开发银行的支持。更广义地说，支持取消这一项目有害于世行对基于规则的制度和法律确定性的推进，也会阻碍发展中和新兴经济体寻求改变门客主义、唯保护人之首是詹的经济的改革家。