27 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka has dropped one place in the World Bank's ease of doing business index despite adopting some key reforms, a media report, quoting the bank's latest ranking, as saying on Thursday. "Over the past year Sri Lanka made progress in two reform areas that are ...
The World Bank's Ease of Doing Business (EDB) index is well-known and widely used to quantify and monitor the 'ease of doing business' within a country. The index attracted notable criticism for being too reliant on a 'one size fits all' approach (equal weighting) to the weighting step...
Afghanistan was ranked 173 in the World Bank’s “Doing Business Report for 2019: Training for Reform” and received a score of 44.1. Last year the score was 47.7, and Afghanistan ranked 167 in the index. According to the report, Afghanistan’s position has dropped by six points in this...
The 2020 version of theDoing Businessreport covered 190 economies and 12 indicators, 10 of which were included in the Ease of Doing Business score and ranking, indicating the complexity for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to do business in the country. In China, the World Bank’s ...
LOME, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- Togo was ranked 97th in the World Bank's "Ease of Doing Business 2020" report released Thursday, which measured regulations across 190 economies to assess their business environment. Togo moved up 40 places from the 137th position last year and are among this ye...
In a latest development, Pakistan has moved up 28 places on World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Index 2020. Subsequently, Pakistan is now placed at 108th spot, as compared to 136th position to last year
This paper critically examines the role of law in promoting economic development and argues that the most influential ‘law and development’ agenda—the World Bank Doing Business (DB) project—is not fit for purpose and should be replaced. The paper argues that the DB project and associated ran...
The World Bank’s B-READY ease of doing business report is slated for the spring of 2024. Although China won’t be included in this new World Bank report until 2025, several cities have released development plans that are in part designed to align with the requirements of B...
The study aims to identify the determinants of digital financial inclusion (DFI) and its role in micro enterprises’ ease of doing business. The study is based on the World Bank’s Enterprises Survey of Micro Firms (ESM) 2022 data of 998 micro-enterprises. The variables that measure access ...
Our analysis shows that HQD rankings correlate with the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business index, which includes factors such as the number of procedures, time, fees, and minimum capital investment required to start a business, as well as the tax...