Indices can mislead on Africa business costs
Indices and rankings aid understanding of the continent's varied business environment, but have important limitations
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- Africa ascending?
- Improvers?
- Informality
- Critical concerns
- Poor data
- Poor sources
- Responding to criticism
- Nuancing the numbers
- Cities
- Opinion surveys
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_350.jpg "World Bank President Jim Yong Kim talks with Daniel Duncan, Prime Minister of Cote d'Ivoire, World Bank headquarters in Washington (Reuters/Gary Cameron)")