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World Bank announces relaunch of Doing Business Report in approximately two years.
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Fears of DBR's rebranding realised
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As India has risen in the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business rankings, it has seen other key development indicators slip.
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Ease of Doing Business – what does it conceal?
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Civil society urges the World Bank to scrap DBR and EBA, claiming the latter harms small-scale farmers by putting corporate interests first.
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The wrongdoings of the DBR and the corporate take-over of agriculture
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Debt overhang risks another lost decade and could derail progress on poverty reduction and SDGs
Over 60 per cent of low-income countries and more than 25 percent of emerging market economies are in or at risk of debt distress, and are in danger of being unable to fulfil their fiscal obligations.
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World Bank’s re-labelled Business Enabling Environment Project does little to address substantial flaws of Doing Business Report
Civil society calls for urgent evaluation of Doing Business impacts as the World Bank announces a rebranded Business Enabling Environment Project, failing to address underlying issues.
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Recommended resources on the World Bank and IMF 2021
Bretton Woods Project publishes its selection of the best books, reports and other resources on the World Bank and IMF from 2021.
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Debt crisis prevention: We need to talk about capital controls
IMF's position on capital controls must be revised to recognise that they are an essential and permanent macroeconomic tool necessary to increase countries' policy autonomy and enable them to act counter-cyclically and to prevent future debt crises.
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As World Bank pauses Doing Business Report, pressure mounts for it to be permanently scrapped
Civil society, trade unions and academics call for permanent end of Doing Business Report as World Bank suspends its publication due to data irregularities.
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The World Bank: What it is and how it operates
This Inside the Institutions provides an overview of how the Bank’s systems are designed to operate.
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19 July 2023
B-Ready for more ill-founded private-sector solutions
The World Bank released a concept note of Doing Business report replacement, B-Ready project, ignoring civil society demands of an independent evaluation.
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3 October 2022
World Bank appoints Indermit Gill as new chief economist
Gill replaces Carmen Reinhart as she returns to Harvard after a two-year public service leave from the institution.
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19 April 2022 | Letters
It’s just the tip of the iceberg: civil society organisations call for an overhaul of the World Bank following the Doing Business Report scandal
More than 140 CSO groups and individuals call on the World Bank to focus on grappling with the harms caused by its undemocratic governance structure and biased publications like the Doing Business Report, and to take measures to decolonise the institution.
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22 September 2021
Global civil society achieves significant victory as World Bank discontinues contentious Doing Business Report
Significant victory for global civil society and movements as World Bank ends Doing Business Report
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23 March 2021
Doing Business Report to be published after temporary suspension over data irregularities
World Bank plans to publish latest DBR in March and undertake an external review of the report’s methodology.
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