Doing Business was often touted as the World Bank's most influential and popular product. It rewarded countries for things like making it easy to register a business and (more controversially) low corporate tax rates and weak labor regulations. 2/

Things started to unravel when Paul Romer, then WB Chief Economist, accused the bank of rigging the numbers in Chile. Digging into the data, we found methodological changes perfectly timed to embarrass Bachelet's socialist government. Twice. www.cgdev.org/blog/chart-w... 3/