Global rankings that our officialdom never questions

For instance, a ‘jump’ in India’s rank from 130th to 100th in 2018 largely reflected such technical modifications. Adjusting for these, the improvement in India’s rank would have been much more modest, calculations by Justin Sandefur and Divyanshi Wadhwa of the Centre for Global Development showed. This issue is going to persist in the new rankings, which will undergo frequent upgrades, making it difficult to track a country’s progress over time.