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From Doing Business to B-READY: World Bank’s new rankings represent a rebrand, not a revamp

  • Written by Fernanda G Nicola, Professor of Law, American University
From Doing Business to B-READY: World Bank’s new rankings represent a rebrand, not a revampThe 2025 spring meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund takes place in Washington, D.C.Bryan Dozier/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images

In 2021, the World Bank shut down one of its flagship projects: the Doing Business index, a global ranking system that measured how easy it was to start and run a business in 190...

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