Conference on the impact of regulatory reform (World Bank)

On February 20 & 21, 2014, the World Bank Group will convene a research conference titled, Doing Business: Past, Present and Future of Business Regulation at the McDonough School of Business in Georgetown University in Washington, DC. The conference is co-sponsored by USAID and the Kauffman Foundation. The conference aims to bring together academics, World Bank Group staff and development professionals from around the world to discuss the impact of regulatory reform and to guide the Doing Business report project in the years to come. In the context of recent criticism levelled at the annual Doing Business ranking, this new wave of academic papers is expected to bolster the robustness of this major tool for comparing economies and their regulatory policies.