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October 26, 2019
People over business – Why Ease of Doing Business hurt people and environment 
In the last week, we saw two indices, which were released globally. One on hunger and another on Ease of Doing Business. India slipped from 95th position to 102nd position out of 117 countries in Global Hunger Index.[1] While the country gained another 14 points in Ease of doing business jumping fro...
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November 20, 2018
An exclusionary benchmark
Doing business report isn’t about economic milieu; it’s about lax regulations. This refers to your editorial, ‘Serious business’ (IE, November 2). It notes the improvement in India’s ranking, but also strikes a cautious note in several aspects. It points out that the key to making business easy is r...
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February 23, 2026
Booklet: The Trap of Doing Business Rankings
The Doing Business Report and the Ease of Doing Business Index is one of the flagship reports of the World Bank Group, a co-publication of World Bank and International Finance Corporation – the private arm of the World Bank Group. The report gets massive media attention and influences governments a...
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