Concerns about Doing Business first became public in 2018 when the World Bank’s chief economist, Paul Romer, said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal that he was concerned the report ...

A participant stands near a logo of World Bank at the International Monetary Fund - World Bank Annual Meeting 2018 in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, October 12, 2018.

The World Bank plans to unveil in about two years a replacement for its flagship "Doing Business" report on countries' business climate, which was canceled after a data-rigging scandal, the bank's ...

WASHINGTON, September 16, 2021—The World Bank Group today issued the following statement on the Doing Business report: “Trust in the research of the World Bank Group is vital. World Bank Group ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The World Bank plans to unveil in about two years a replacement for its flagship “Doing Business” report on countries’ business climate, which was canceled after a data ...

A showdown is looming at the World Bank over whether to discontinue or water down the Bank’s annual "Doing Business" Report. As reported here, and blogged about here, and here, China is leading ...

WASHINGTON -- An independent World Bank review of its highly cited annual report on the ease of doing business around the globe has recommended that it stop ranking countries because the listings ...

The “Doing Business” report is the most important contribution the World Bank has made to global development in the last 25 years. The discovery that high-level World Bank staff tampered with ...

Doing In Business at the World Bank. Share. ... Since 2003, the bank's annual Doing Business survey has reported on the regulatory environments facing small and medium businesses around the world.

Which brings us to the scandal over the World Bank’s annual “Doing Business” reports. Since its inception in 2003, the influential list has ranked 190 countries according to “Doing ...

Weeks before the World Bank scrapped its flagship Doing Business rankings following a damning independent probe, a group of external advisers recommended an overhaul of the rankings to limit ...

The World Bank canceled a prominent report rating the business environment of the world’s countries after a probe concluded that senior bank management pressured staff to alter data affecting ...