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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Sampling Size, Not Modi's Touch, Boosted India's Doing Business Rank: Report

Sampling Size, Not Modi's Touch, Boosted India's Doing Business Rank: Report

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published Published on Feb 7, 2018   modified Modified on Feb 7, 2018
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India’s jump in the ‘Doing Business’ rankings turns out to be mostly an “artefact of methodological changes”, according to a report by the Centre for Global Development.

New Delhi: The Centre for Global Development (CDG), a US-based think-tank that studies global poverty and inequality, has dismissed India’s spectacular jump on the World Bank’s latest ease of doing business index as misleading, saying it is largely due to changes in the methodology adopted by the staff who prepared the report.

The think-tank has used the recent revelations by the former chief economist of World Bank Paul Romer – who alleged that the institution’s staff made unfair changes in the assessment methodology to show the government of Chile in a bad light – to examine India’s rise in the doing business rankings.

“Whichever method we use, once you iron out the methodological changes, India’s recent jump in the Doing Business rankings looks much more modest. To its credit, the World Bank office in Delhi cautioned against focusing on changes in the rankings when this issue reached public prominence in India,” says the blog titled ‘A Change in World Bank Methodology (Not Reform) Explains India’s Rise in Doing Business Rankings’ which has been jointly authored by Justin Sandefur, a senior fellow, and Divyanshi Wadhwa, a research assistant, of the Center for Global Development (CGD).

“But those cautions were probably outweighed by the World Bank’s very own headlines, encouraging a misleading focus on India’s spurious ‘jump’,” they added.

Specifically, the report examines changes in methodology when they were introduced and applies the change uniformly across successive years. As the report notes:

    “Instead of dropping new indicators, we splice the series together whenever there is a methodological innovation. So for instance, when the World Bank changed the underlying indicators in the “ease of getting credit” index in 2014, they kindly reported the score using both methodologies for that year. India scored 81.25 on the old methodology in 2014 and 65 using the new method. Our approach is simply to multiply all of India’s credit scores by 1.25 (=81.25/65) for every year after 2014, so there is no artificial jump in India’s credit score.”


The authors find that in the case of India, the “big change” – India jumped 30 places in the last review – comes not from individual scores on various metrics but rather from the addition of new countries to the index’s sample.

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TheWire.in, 6 February, 2018, https://thewire.in/221390/sampling-size-not-modis-touch-drove-indias-jump-business-rankings-report/


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