“I want to make a personal apology to Chile, and to any other country where we conveyed the wrong impression," Romer told The wall Street Journal. Romer’s statement that the national ranking of ease of doing business would be carried for last four years, could have notable impact on India as its ranking jumped from 140 in 2014 to 100 in 2018. The problems with the report, he said, were “my fault because we did not make things clear enough".