Investment climate, growth, and poverty

Intro -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- OPENING ADDRESS: In WEnt's Commitment to Helping Improve the Investment Climate in Developing Countries -- Early Thinking on the Scope and Approach of the 2005 World Development Report -- Part I: Investment, Productivity, and Development: What Have We Learned? -- How Do the RPED Surveys Inform the Debate on the Investment Climate? -- Part II: Investor Perspectives on the Investment Climate -- An Investor's Perspective on the Investment Climate in Developing Countries -- The Investment Climate and a Strategy for Development -- Part III: Securing Property and Contractual Rights -- Enforcing Corporate Governance -- The Economics of Formalization: Potential Winners and Losers from Formalization in Egypt -- How Does Judicial Independence Affect the Investment Climate? -- Part IV: Financial Markets -- How Important Are Financial Markets in Spurring Growth and Investment? -- Part V: Regulations, Governance, and Corruption -- Transparency International: The Fight against Corruption -- What Is a "Good Investment Climate"? -- Part VI: What Role for More Selective Interventions? -- Business Investment and Competition Policy -- Part VII: Reforming the Investment Climate -- Reforming the Investment Climate -- Credibility and Commitment -- CLOSING REMARKS -- Appendix 1: Program -- Appendix 2: Participants.