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Broome, André (2021) Data for Gaming country rankings: consultancies as knowledge brokers for global benchmarks. [Dataset]
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/UVSSNN
Abstract
This article explores how for-profit consultancies mediate knowledge about global benchmarks in developing countries. Drawing on the case of the Ease of Doing Business rankings, published annually by the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation between 2005 and 2019, it examines the role consultancies play as knowledge brokers connecting global benchmarks produced by intergovernmental organizations to regulatory reform programs undertaken by national public administrations. The article shows how consultancies contracted to implement business enabling environment projects by the United States Agency for International Development advised national policymakers on how to design reforms to improve their country's ranking status. Lending weight to criticisms that shifts in country rankings are misleading as an indicator of changes in regulatory quality, the findings suggest that consultancies have leveraged benchmarks to perpetuate demand for their own expertise rather than to improve the evidence base for aid allocation and the evaluation of development projects.
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HF Commerce H Social Sciences > HG Finance |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Business enterprises, Economic development, International Finance Corporation, United States. Agency for International Development, World Bank | ||||||
| Publisher: | University of Warwick, Department of Politics and International Studies (PIAS) | ||||||
| Official Date: | 6 December 2021 | ||||||
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| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Media of Output (format): | .tab | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
| Copyright Holders: | University of Warwick | ||||||
| Description: | The dataset lists the published rankings for each country included in the World Bank and International Finance Corporation's Ease of Doing Business Rankings, published annually in the Doing Business reports between 2005 (Doing Business 2006) and 2019 (Doing Business 2020). |
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