Doing business: how countries gamed the World Bank’s business rankings

Broome, André (2022) Doing business: how countries gamed the World Bank’s business rankings. British Politics and Policy at LSE (06 Jan 2022). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

The World Bank announced in September that it would discontinue its ‘Doing Business’ reports after data irregularities were uncovered. André Broome analyses why the reports were discredited and explains how countries have ‘gamed’ the Ease of Doing Business rankings since they were first introduced in 2005.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/
Additional Information:	© 2022 The Author
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HG Finance
Date Deposited:	05 Apr 2022 12:27
Last Modified:	19 Oct 2023 14:20
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/114220

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