Myanmar deemed rising Doing Business star, but at what cost? brettonwoodsproject.org

Myanmar, most recently in the news due to UN allegations of human rights abuses against its minority Rohingya population and renewed conflict in the Rhakine region, was deemed one of the top 20 performers in the World Bank?s 2020 Doing Business Report (DBR) (see Observer Winter 2018; Inside the Institutions, World Bank?s Doing Business Report), moving to 165 from 171 of the 190 countries analysed.