THE World Bank Group’s decision to cancel its ‘Doing Business’ report will definitely put Lesotho on a dark mode.

Already, the country is struggling to attract foreign investment due to a series of bottlenecks that include but not limited to an unfavourable political climate, lack of access to finance as well as poor service delivery.

Recently, and just a year after suspending the report, the World Bank has decided to put a permanent stop to the publication of the document, citing data irregularities from as far back as 2018.

In spite of the fact that we are an impoverished nation and equally one of the smallest countries in the world, our consistent participation in that report had its own positives, depending on our positioning on its economic indicators.

The outcomes of the report were able to influence some crucial decisions made in the country just so that our overall economic climate became relatively acceptable across the world.

This abolition will therefore, and without any doubt have a huge impact in our quest to push for more foreign investment.

It also means more tussles for a country that has arguably only performed well in the textile and apparel industry in the last decade.

The move by the World Bank paints a gloomy picture to our already little know status on the global front.

That basically means that those who know little or nothing at all about our tiny mountain kingdom are likely to remain in that space for keeps.

On the flip side of the coin, that section with limited knowledge about us and our country has now been denied the opportunity to further monitor and expand that information going forward.

Expanding that knowledge could have in turn sparked more interest on their part and perhaps influence investment decisions.