"There's going to be some investor trepidation, " said Christian Busken, a real-estate analyst for Fund Evaluation Group, which advises institutional clients.

WSJ: New Jersey Fund Move Could Clarify Prices

The World Bank's in-house "watchdog, " an entity called the Independent Evaluation Group, recently lambasted Doing Business, claiming that there was no significant relationship between the publication's indicators and economic growth rates, even though the countries with the lowest rankings usually have the worst long-term records for economic growth.

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