India was placed at 63rd position this time (2019) out of 190 countries marking an improvement of 14 places from its 77th position in 2018.
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THE 2020 LIST
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The economies with the most notable improvement in
Doing Business 2020 are Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Togo, Bahrain,
Tajikistan, Pakistan, Kuwait, China, India, and Nigeria.
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PROBLEMS WITH REPORT
World Bank announced that it was temporarily pausing the publication of its well-known ‘Doing Business’ report as it investigates a number of “data irregularities” that have been reported in the 2018 and 2020 reports.
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The World Bank added that authorities of the countries that “were most affected by the data irregularities” have been informed and that the institution would “retrospectively correct the data of the countries that had been affected by the irregularities”.
A Wall Street Journal report on the development indicated that China, Azerbaijan, UAE and Saudi Arabia are among nations that may have had data “inappropriately altered”.
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