page_title: Simeon Dyankov
section_title: The Doing Business project
hierarchical_section_title: Simeon Dyankov / World Bank / The Doing Business project
caption_attribution_description: English: Data source: Ease of Doing Business Index by the World Bank. http://www.doingbusiness.org/ Map based on Image:BlankMap-World-v5.png.
context_page_description: Simeon Dyankov is a Bulgarian economist. From 2009 to 2013, he was the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Bulgaria in the government of Boyko Borisov. Prior to his cabinet appointment, Simeon Dyankov was a Chief economist of the finance and private sector vice-presidency of the World Bank. He was an associate editor of the Journal of Comparative Economics from 2004 to 2009. Dyankov was a chairman of the board of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
  In 2013 he was appointed rector of the New Economic School in Moscow, a title he held until July 2015. He is a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, on leave for public service. Since November 2015, Dyankov is research fellow of the Financial Markets Group at the London School of Economics.
  Simeon Dyankov is listed as the most-published Bulgarian economist. In 2017–2018, he directed the World Development Report at the World Bank. Since 2018, Simeon Dyankov is Director, Development Economics at the World Bank.
context_section_description: Simeon Dyankov is the creator of the annual Doing Business report, the top-selling publication of the World Bank Group. The report came out of joint research work with Professor Andrei Shleifer at Harvard University, and was inspired by Dyankov's experience in overly-regulated socialist economies. The Regulation of Entry paper is one of the most-cited papers in all of economics, with 913 references in academic journals and 3,400 citations in working papers and official reports. Since its initial publication in November 2003, Doing Business has generated 9,750,000 media citations, and over 7 million copies sold or downloaded. The Doing Business report recently had its 17th annual book published. In a 2016 article for the Journal of Economic Perspectives Dyankov explains how Doing Business started. An example of his empirical research supporting the Doing Business report is a paper on business regulation and poverty, published in Economics Letters.
  A November 2017 EconTalk explains the origins and influence of the Doing Business report. A summary of reforms during the 15-year anniversary lists the main achievements. The methodology in the Doing Business report has been used by teams managed by Simeon Dyankov to develop other World Bank indices, for example the Human Capital Index.
caption: Ease of doing business index
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