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 ...

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 ...

In 2021, the World Bank shut down one of its flagship projects: the Doing Business index, a global ranking system that measured how easy it was to start and run a business in 190 countries.

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 ...

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 ...

The World Bank’s Doing Business 2019 report ranks 190 economies based on how easy it is to do business there, taking into account trading regulations, property rights, contract enforcement ...

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 ...

The World Bank is working on a new approach to measuring the business and investment climate in economies after its previous flagship report known as “Doing Business” was canceled last year ...