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World Bank suspends key business report

The World Bank has suspended the publication of a key annual report that countries use to gauge their ease in attracting investors, pending a probe on data irregularities.

The Doing Business report, started 17 years ago, is one of the most quoted by government officials and examines the economies of 190 countries based on how easy it is to do business there.

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