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...
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...
On August 27th, 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...
Chief Economist, Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg known as Penny Goldberg announced her resignation from the World Bank from 1st March 2020. She will be going back to her teaching job at Yale University. This marks...
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....
India is now a poster boy for the World Bank’s much-criticised Doing Business Report (DBR), and its associated country rankings index (EODB) (see Observer Winter 2018). The country has drastically improved its place in the EODB index, rising...
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...
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,...
In an age of widespread fake news, breaking and exclusive news, and 24/7 live news updates, spaces for in-depth, analytical and critical writings have shrunk. This is true for all topics, but even more...
The World Development Report (WDR) is the World Bank’s development research and policy review report published annually. Started by IBRD since 1978, this report is intended to provide deep and extensive analysis on one...
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...
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...
Nityanand Jayaraman on the Infrastructure projects in Tamil Nadu and their Impacts
Five years ago, on April 24, 2013, a tragedy in neighbouring Bangladesh shook up everyone. Rana Plaza, a five-storied commercial building, that housed several “sweatshop” clothing factories, a bank and few shops, collapsed and...
The call for reforms in the labour laws in the country became strong with the liberalisation of the economy in the 90’s. The Second National Commission on labour was set up in 1999 which...
