Misleading Statistic · Medium confidence
India's rank did rise 42 places (142 to 100) but the World Bank warned rankings across years are not comparable because of methodology changes; FactChecker rated the claim 'false'.
Test case in Suite A · score 0.50
English · ParaphrasedIndia's Ease of Doing Business rank rose from 142 to 100 because of a systemic overhaul (paraphrase from FactChecker's list).
Paraphrased from news reports; not a verbatim quote.
- Speaker
- Narendra Modi
- Party
- BJP
- Office
- Prime Minister
- Venue
- Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, New Delhi
- Date
- 2017-11-30
- Topics
- economy, governance
- Researched by
- claude-sonnet
Transcript / text sources
Evidence
| Type | Publisher | Title | Date | Key figure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fact-check | FactChecker.in / BOOM | 9 of Prime Minister Modi's 16 claims on schemes true, 3 false | 2017-12-18 | Rated 9 true, 3 false, 2 partly true, 2 unclear across the 30 Nov 2017 HT Leadership Summit speech |
| Index | World Bank | Doing Business 2018 full report | 2017-10-31 | Rank 100; report cautions on cross-year comparability due to methodology changes |
| Index | World Bank | Doing Business 2015 full report | 2014-10-29 | Earlier-edition ranking used as comparison baseline |
Analysis
FactChecker accepted that the headline rank rose 42 places between 2015 and 2018 but rated the claim false because it attributed the rise to a systemic overhaul while the World Bank cautions that ranks from different editions use different methodologies.
Our scale maps this to misleading: the numbers are real, the causal and comparative framing is not supported by the World Bank's own caveats.
Confidence in verdict & review
- Confidence in verdict
- Medium
- Review status
- draft
- Last reviewed
- 2026-10-17
Notes
FactChecker's label was 'False'; we use 'misleading' because the numbers cited are accurate. The Doing Business reports were later discontinued by the World Bank (2021) after data irregularities in other editions; not researched here.
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