Fraudulent intervention by China and Saudi Arabia suspended World Bank’s Doing Business Report (2)

 Changes in the ranking of China and Saudi Arabia from 2016 to 2020

 

 World rankings of China and Saudi Arabia in the Doing Business Report 2016 to 2020 has changed as follows;

 

Rankings of China was 90^th in 2016. After that the rankings went up to 78^th in 2017, the same figure in 2018, 46th in 2019, and

 31^st in 2020 respectively. The original figure of 2018 was supposed to be lower than that of 2017. But as mentioned above, it has been kept the same ranking as the previous year. The reason was attributed to strong complaints by China. After 2018, the rankings of China rose significantly in 2019 and 2020. The business environment in 2020 has improved to almost the same level as Japan, which was 29th.

 

In case of Saudi Arabia, it was the 82nd place in 2016. From 2017 to 2019 the rankings were sluggish below 90. Suddenly it rose to 62nd place in 2020. As mentioned above, Saudi Arabia and Jordan have been swapped the assessment of environmental improvement in 2020. The ranking of Saudi Arabia has risen significantly by the data irregularity. Among 190 countries and/or regions, Saudi Arabia had been in the middle of the world till 2019. But it is now in the top third group.

 

Both China and Saudi Arabia gained significant high ranking in or after the year in which the data irregularity was taken place.

 

(cont’d)

 

By Areha Kazuya

E-mail: Arehakazuya1@gmail.com