Through its annual Doing Business Report the World Bank always seeks new angles to justify its promotion of reduced regulation on business. A closer look at the 2017 report, subtitled: ‘Equal Opportunity for All’, reveals its deceptions and naked ideological bias. – See more at: http://www.newagebd.net/article/3857/deceptions-of-wb-doing-business-report-2017#sthash.AFCQolL9.dpuf
The World Bank’s deceptive deregulation agenda
Published by Anis Chowdhury
Anisuzzaman (popularly known as Anis) Chowdhury was born in Chittagong (Bangladesh) in 1954. He migrated to Australia in 1987 and returned to his adopted home in January 2016 after completing an eight-year career in the United Nations Secretariat, which began and ended in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) in New York. In between he was at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP) in Bangkok as Director of Macroeconomic Policy and Development Division (July 2012-Aug. 2014) and Director of Statistics Division (Sept. 2014-May 2015). Previously, he was Professor of Economics at the University of Western Sydney (2001-2012) and taught also at the Universities of Singapore (1983-87), New England (Australia, 1987-92) and Manitoba (Canada, 1978-83). He was a founding managing editor of the Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy (1995-2008), where he remains on its editorial board as a co-editor. He has published widely on East and Southeast Asia and on macro-development issues and edited two volumes on Moulana Bhashani – Moulana Bhashani: The Leader of Toiling Masses and Moulana Bhashani: His Creed and Politics. He holds a PhD from the University of Manitoba (1983) and honours and master’s degrees from Jahangirnagar University of Bangladesh (1976 and 1978). View all posts by Anis Chowdhury
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