Business regulation reform is spreading. A record 131 economies around the globe reformed business regulation in 2008/09, according to the IFC-World Bank Doing Business 2010 report. That is more than 70 percent of the 183 economies covered by the report- the largest share in any year since the annual report was first published in 2004. The report points out that this progress came against the backdrop of a global economic crisis. 287 reforms were recorded between June 2008 and May 2009, an...