Is there a trade-off between corruption and ease of doing business?

ON Oct 31 last year, the World Bank released its latest “Doing Business in 2019” report, placing Malaysia on a high ranking of 15 among 190 countries. The most important point was the significant jump of nine spots from the 24th position in 2018.

In the 2019 report, Malaysia’s point score improved by 2.57 points to 80.60 points and we are now just one point away from the top-10 list.