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The World Bank used to publish an annual Ease of Doing Business ranking. It has stopped this, citing “ethical matters” and “data irregularities”. Some nations fudged the data, and also bribed, threatened, and otherwise influenced researchers to game the rankings.
Between 2014 and 2019, India’s ranking jumped from 142 to 63. There are several possible reasons for this improvement. The business environment may have improved spectacularly. A steady reduction in gross domestic product growth, tens of millions unemployed, and thousands of bankrupt micro, small and medium enterprises, however, suggest a counterfactual to this.
Maybe the rankings rose via a statistical
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