Doing Business

The 2009 World Bank Doing Business indicators were released today. They are available here. Here is a bibliography of studies that use these data. (HT) I'll write lots more about these data, but I like this bit from the PSD blog:

Six months after Egypt reformed its property registry, title registration increased and revenue rose by nearly 40%.

People respond to incentives and it is nice to see that some countries are reducing and modernizing their regulatory requirements.