Several weeks ago on Economics One I wrote that it would be a big mistake for the World Bank to drop or water down its Doing Business reports.

It is good news and a nice show of bipartisanship that Members of Congress Jeb Hensarling (R), Karen Bass (D), Edward Royce (R), and Gregory Meeks (D) wrote a letter to President Jim Kim of the World Bank urging him to keep the annual report started 10 years ago.

In a recent oped former U.S.A.I.D. Administrator Andrew Natsios makes an even stronger case.