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20 Cities Across The Globe Where Hailing A Cab Turns Out To Be Most Expensive
Recently, Deutsche Bank released a report, 'Mapping the World's Prices 2025, where they revealed what a 5 km local cab ride costs in the top 20 cities around the world.
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World Bank's New Warning On Sri Lanka Amid Severe Food Price Inflation
Sri Lanka is ranked fifth among the 10 countries with the highest food price inflation in the world, according to the latest World Bank assessment.
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External Review Finds Deeper Rot In World Bank 'Doing Business' Rankings
Weeks before the World Bank scrapped its flagship Doing Business rankings following a damning independent probe, a group of external advisers recommended an overhaul of the rankings to limit countries' efforts to "manipulate their scores."
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How Much Wealth Do You Need To Join The World's Richest 1%? Details Here
Joining the ranks of the richest 1% is never easy, but it's especially hard in Monaco. You need to be worth almost $8 million to make the cut in the Mediterranean principality, where residents typically don't pay income taxes, according to research on more than two-dozen locations by Knight Frank.
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Ease-Of-Doing-Business Index Updated: India Holds Its Place, China Drops
The World Bank corrected two recent reports ranking nations by ease of doing business, adjusting the scores for China and three other countries based on an internal audit following staffers' allegations of "undue pressure" by management to alter ratings.
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"Want India To Break Into Top 50 Nations On Ease Of Doing Business": PM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday set an ambitious target of India breaking into top 50 nations on the World Bank's ease of doing business ranking and said efforts are on to nearly double the size of country's economy to USD 5 trillion.
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Jump In Ease Of Doing Business Rank Matter Of Pride For India: Amit Shah
BJP president Amit Shah on Wednesday described India's jump in the World Bank's ease of doing business ranking as a matter of pride for every Indian, and also took a dig at the Congress saying under its "economist" prime minister Manmohan Singh, the country had slipped to 142nd rank.
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Ranked At 115, India Rejects World Bank's Human Capital Index Report
The government on Thursday rejected the findings of the World Bank's Human Capital Index (HCI), which has placed the country at 115th position out of 157 countries on various parameters, such as survivability measured by under-five mortality rate.
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Prithviraj Chavan Questions Maharashtra's Low Rank In Ease Of Business
Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Tuesday expressed concern that the state ranks 13th in the country in the ease of doing business survey by the World Bank and Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP).
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India Needs 8% Growth, Reforms To Join Middle-Income Group: World Bank
Economy needs to grow 8% and higher a year for the next three decades to join the ranks of middle-income countries, says World Bank.
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20 Cities Across The Globe Where Hailing A Cab Turns Out To Be Most Expensive
Recently, Deutsche Bank released a report, 'Mapping the World's Prices 2025, where they revealed what a 5 km local cab ride costs in the top 20 cities around the world.
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World Bank's New Warning On Sri Lanka Amid Severe Food Price Inflation
Sri Lanka is ranked fifth among the 10 countries with the highest food price inflation in the world, according to the latest World Bank assessment.
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External Review Finds Deeper Rot In World Bank 'Doing Business' Rankings
Weeks before the World Bank scrapped its flagship Doing Business rankings following a damning independent probe, a group of external advisers recommended an overhaul of the rankings to limit countries' efforts to "manipulate their scores."
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How Much Wealth Do You Need To Join The World's Richest 1%? Details Here
Joining the ranks of the richest 1% is never easy, but it's especially hard in Monaco. You need to be worth almost $8 million to make the cut in the Mediterranean principality, where residents typically don't pay income taxes, according to research on more than two-dozen locations by Knight Frank.
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Ease-Of-Doing-Business Index Updated: India Holds Its Place, China Drops
The World Bank corrected two recent reports ranking nations by ease of doing business, adjusting the scores for China and three other countries based on an internal audit following staffers' allegations of "undue pressure" by management to alter ratings.
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"Want India To Break Into Top 50 Nations On Ease Of Doing Business": PM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday set an ambitious target of India breaking into top 50 nations on the World Bank's ease of doing business ranking and said efforts are on to nearly double the size of country's economy to USD 5 trillion.
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Jump In Ease Of Doing Business Rank Matter Of Pride For India: Amit Shah
BJP president Amit Shah on Wednesday described India's jump in the World Bank's ease of doing business ranking as a matter of pride for every Indian, and also took a dig at the Congress saying under its "economist" prime minister Manmohan Singh, the country had slipped to 142nd rank.
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Ranked At 115, India Rejects World Bank's Human Capital Index Report
The government on Thursday rejected the findings of the World Bank's Human Capital Index (HCI), which has placed the country at 115th position out of 157 countries on various parameters, such as survivability measured by under-five mortality rate.
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Prithviraj Chavan Questions Maharashtra's Low Rank In Ease Of Business
Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Tuesday expressed concern that the state ranks 13th in the country in the ease of doing business survey by the World Bank and Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP).
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India Needs 8% Growth, Reforms To Join Middle-Income Group: World Bank
Economy needs to grow 8% and higher a year for the next three decades to join the ranks of middle-income countries, says World Bank.
