Recent Media Coverage
The Economist
Wall Street Journal
- A Flawed 'Doing Business' Report - 5/15/13
- Doing In Business at the World Bank - 5/7/13
- A World Bank Success Under Attack - 4/30/13
Financial Times
- Bangladesh exposes flaws in World Bank’s Doing Business Index - 5/16/13
- China’s challenge to the World Bank - 5/8/13
- Challenge is not without precedent - 5/8/13
- China seeks to water down key World Bank report - 5/6/13
Foreign Policy
- How Jim Kim can save the Doing Business report - 5/22/13
- No More Doing Business As Usual - 5/9/13
- It's Not Business As Usual At the World Bank - 4/26/13
- The United States can’t let China scuttle the Doing Business index - 4/17/13
Other Media Outlets
- Heritage Foundation Blog: The World Bank Must Defend “Doing Business” Report - 5/30/13
- The Guardian: IMF and World Bank are losing clout in developing countries - 5/30/13
- Gestion-Peru: En Defensa del “Doing Business” - 5/30/13
- Business Times-Singapore: What to do with Doing Business? - 5/29/13
- New Strait Times: What is the point of Doing Business? - 5/29/13
- Caijing Magazine: What to Do with Doing Business? - 5/28/13
- Project Syndicate:
- The Importance of Doing Business - 5/16/13
- Addis Fortune: Abolishing “Doing Business” Unaffordable - 5/26/13
- allAfrica: Ethiopia: Abolishing "Doing Business" Unaffordable - 5/26/13
- Roll Call: Preserve the Index to Promote Global Private Enterprise - 5/20/13
- U.S. News: Burying the World Bank’s Info - 5/20/13
- The Reporter: The importance of doing business - 5/18/13
- Today’s Zaman: The Importance of Doing Business by Ana Palacio - 5/17/13
- The Gulf Times: The importance of Doing Business - 5/16/13
- CFR Blog: Doing Business at the World Bank - 5/16/13
- Marginal Revolution: Save the World Bank’s *Doing Business* report - 5/14/13
- The Irish Time: China quibbles with World Bank report - 5/13/13
- 3 Forbes: Mind Your Own Doing Business - 5/13/13
- Cato Institute: Doing Business: If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It - 5/13/13
- AEI Blog: Just look at what the World Bank’s Noam Chomsky-admiring boss is doing - 5/10/13
- Wall Street Pit: 10 Years Doing Business, Measuring Results, and Now Bill Gates - 5/9/13
- National Business Review: EDITOR'S INSIGHT: Activists endanger NZ's business ranking - 5/9/13
- UCSIB: USCIB Rallies Support for World Bank Doing Business Reports - 5/8/13
- The Voice of Russia (Radio): China wants to eliminate the ranking of countries in the World Bank report - 5/8/13
- Global Times: China challenges World Bank - 5/8/13
- RT: China wants to end World Bank business rankings - 5/7/13
- China Business Spectator: China dismisses World Bank rankings - 5/7/13
- The Telegraph (UK): China's attempt to pervert Western institutions - 5/6/13
- Washington Times: Pocketing the keys to prosperity - 5/6/13
- Global Dashboard: What the World Bank Does Not Understand About “Doing Business” - 5/2/13
- Cato Institute: Doing Business Under Attack - 4/29/13
- CAFOD Policy: Are Small Businesses getting a Bigger Profile at the World Bank? - 4/20/13
- Heritage Foundation: Promoting Economic Freedom: Key to Realizing the World Bank’s Mission - 4/18/13
- CSIS: 10 Years of Age: Doing Business Faces Scrutiny - 4/16/13
- Rethinking Bretton Woods: World Bank Doing Business rankings: Discontinue or stop using them, CSOs say - 4/13/13
- Center for Global Dev.: The Doing Business Rankings: Fix Them, Don’t Scrap Them - 4/3/13