The present paper argues that the Doing Business indicators, their legitimacy (their ability to be defended through some logic or justification arising from standards) and the wider notions of legitimacy (the standards) that they promulgate are all best understood as social or, better still, ‘econosociolegal’ constructions. It tracks their, primarily post-financial crisis, re-co-construction within and beyond the World Bank from servant of the private sector and discipliner of states to something approaching social champion. But it warns that the perceptions of legitimacy that have been generated by those indicators may well linger.

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通过营商环境指标重新构建合法性

本文认为，营商​​环境指标、它们的合法性（通过标准产生的某种逻辑或正当理由来捍卫它们的能力）以及它们颁布的更广泛的合法性概念（标准）都最好被理解为社会性的，或者更好的是，“经济社会法律”结构。它主要追踪他们在金融危机后，在世界银行内外的重建，从私营部门的仆人和国家的纪律人员到接近社会冠军的东西。但它警告说，这些指标所产生的合法性看法可能会持续存在。