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- Changes over time in a country’s score on the WGI reflect a combination of three factors (i) changes in the underlying source data, (ii) the addition of new data sources for a country that are only available in the more recent period, and (iii) changes in the weights used to aggregate the individual sources.
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A high ease of doing business ranking means the regulatory environment is more conducive to the starting and operation of a local firm. The rankings are determined by sorting the aggregate scores on 10 topics, each consisting of several indicators, giving equal weight to each topic.
- Subnational
Doing Business in the European Union is a series of reports...
- Media
The World Bank Group commissioned an external review of the...
- About
The first Doing Business study, published in 2003, covered 5...
- Subnational
Jul 15, 2019 · We argue that the World Bank has successfully marshaled the Ease of Doing Business (EDB) Index to amass considerable influence over business regulations worldwide. The Ease of Doing is a global performance indicator (GPI), and GPIs—especially those that rate and rank states against one another—are intended to package information to ...
- Rush Doshi, Judith G. Kelley, Beth A. Simmons
- 2019
The ease of doing business indicator, known as EDB, is a system that ranks the regulatory environment in countries around the world. New research looks at how the World Bank’s ease of doing business index has amassed considerable influence over business regulations worldwide.
Aug 3, 2020 · There are, the World Bank says, two reasons for an economy to be moved between classifications. One is in-country change, such as increased or decreased economic growth, marked shifts in domestic inflation, or exchange rates.
- Explaining The Trends
- Responding to Covid-19 and Other Shocks
- IFC Projects
- Explaining The IFC Trends
The World Bank operates within country programs. Transforming its technical and financial support into results depends on both the country’s capacity and economic environment and the quality of the World Bank’s support. This RAP explores some of these external and internal factors further for World Bank projects and Bank Group country programs. It ...
The study of shocks and their impact on project and program results can also contribute some insights for the World Bank’s ongoing pandemic response. Teams are preparing pandemic response projects (many of which are new rather than additional financing) under tight time pressures and amid complex political, economic, and public health contexts and ...
Investments
IFC investment projects’ development outcome ratings have declined over the past 10 years, but there are early signs that this decline has stopped or may be starting to reverse. IFC development outcome ratings declined from a peak of 75 percent of projects rated mostly successful or better by IEG in calendar year (CY)08 to 40 percent in CY17 and 43 percent in CY18 (figure 2.9). These ratings are based on a stratified random representative sample, which in CY18 covered 99 projects, or 39 perce...
Advisory Services
Development effectiveness ratings for IFC advisory services projects show signs of improvement. Development effectiveness ratings peaked in FY12–14, when 65 percent of advisory projects were rated mostly successful or better (figure 2.10). This declined to 38 percent in FY15–17 before increasing to 41 percent for projects evaluated in FY16–18 and 50 percent for FY17–19 (based on very preliminary FY19 data and therefore subject to change).13When calculated by the advisory project’s funding amo...
IEG researched many possible explanations for the long period of decline in IFC investments’ development outcome ratings. The joint IFC-IEG underlying evaluation and ratings methodologies did not change during this period, so methods changes cannot explain IFC’s ratings decline. The ratings trends for IFC investments differ substantially from those...
Why are the WGI based on subjective measures as opposed to objective indicators? The views and perceptions of firms and households matter because they make decisions based on them. Households will not use the police if they perceive the police to be corrupt.
Mar 24, 2021 · Recognizing the new challenges for national statistical systems in monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the World Bank is developing a new, improved Statistical Performance Indicators (SPI) to monitor progress of the statistical performance of countries.
