Ease of Doing Business Ranking: Why Was It Scrapped and Who’s Guilty of Manipulation?

In September 2021, The World Bank announced that it would scrap its Doing Business report and rankings. The decision comes following internal reports pointing to “data irregularities” in its 2018 and 2020 editions. According to an investigation conducted by Washington-based law firm WilmerHale, World Bank staff members allegedly changed data on China to improve its ranking on the ease of doing business, under pressure from the office of the then-World Bank president Jim Yong Kim and the then-chief executive Kristalina Georgieva and one of her advisers. What was the main problem with this ranking system and why was India so keen on seeing its spot rise on the index? Watch this deep dive on the issue with Mitali Mukherjee.

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Excellent format and presentation. Thank you. Loved your prologue and epilogue commentary apart from the interview itself with ample time for the guest. Also, just the right, low volume to the background audio track. Superb!

[rajnishkrmanga]

Which data to trust and which to doubt? Each country as well as institution is vulnerable to manipulations.

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If you are a Adani, ambani or someone as corrupt and regular donor to RSS then India offers best ease of doing business to you. In which country can nirav modi, ramalinga Raju, Vijay mallya, Sandesra, mehul choksi ...etc escape death sentence for such horrible crimes? Say Hindu Bharat mata ki jai. Well honest people may go to Pakistan, Bangladesh or Nepal, India don't need you.

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High time all these misleading and contrived rankings be dumped. That promote manipulation and deceit

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Rating agency Moody’s on Tuesday revised India’s rating outlook to stable from the negative ranking earlier. It also affirmed India’s Baa3 rating. The decision to change the outlook to stable reflects Moody’s view that the downside risks from negative feedback between the real economy and financial system are receding, the agency said.

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India is still beauracracy central for international business.

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