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October 13, 2021
World Bank’s Doing Business Report is Just the Tip of the Iceberg!
In September, the World Bank announced that it would discontinue the publication of the Doing Business Report and Ranking (DBR). This overdue decision came after a series of internal audits and an investigation that revealed serious ethical improprieties, conflicts of interest inherent in the Bank’s...
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September 7, 2020
Time to give Covid burial, not suspend, World Bank’s ‘flawed’ Doing Business ranking
On August 27, the World Bank came out with a statement suspending the Doing Business Report. The statement said that a number of irregularities have been reported regarding changes to the data in the Doing Business 2018 and Doing Business 2020 reports, published in October 2017 and 2019. The change...
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January 23, 2020
Snippets from the World of International Finance
Government prepares  for more reforms to ensure India comes in the top 50 in ease of doing business rankings India currently occupies 63rd position in the rankings of the World Bank in doing business. Moving ahead 14 positions from 2018, it has been ranked among the top ten improvers in the last thr...
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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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July 10, 2019
द्वितीय स्मितु कोठारी फैलोशिप हेतु आमंत्रण
फर्जी खबरों, ब्रेकिंग और एक्सक्लूसिव न्यूज, और 24/7 लाइव न्यूज अपडेट के दौर में, गहराई से, विश्लेषणात्मक और आलोचनात्मक लेखन के लिए जगह सिकुड़ गयी हैं। यह बात सभी विषयों के लिए सही है, लेकिन वित्त पर, जो हमारे जीवन के सभी क्षेत्रों को छूता है, तो और भी अधिक लागू होती है। युवा लेखकों पर केंद्रित स्मित...
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