Akshay Deshmane, reporting for Huffington Post, wrote of how the Modi government ‘prioritised minor institutional and procedural tweaks to game the ranking system’.52 India rose in the rankings because of a ‘methodological weaknesses’ that put disproportionate emphasis on insignificant changes.53 For instance, ‘eliminating the need for a company seal or rubber stamp to open a bank account, dropping the need to submit a cancelled cheque with employee provident fund applications, removing the need for traders to submit hard copies of documents, and increasing the capacity of an online customs
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