This document discusses India's rankings in the World Bank's Doing Business 2015 report. It provides details on India's overall ranking of 142 out of 189 economies. India improved its distance to frontier score slightly, increasing by 1.19 percentage points. The document outlines India's rankings in specific business regulatory areas, noting that protecting minority investors saw the biggest improvement. It also summarizes reforms undertaken in India in 2013/14 related to starting a business, getting electricity, and protecting minority investors. The document notes that Doing Business indicators are used to analyze economic outcomes and identify effective regulatory reforms. It acknowledges some limitations to the Doing Business methodology.

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2. The doing business project provides objective measures of business regulations and their
enforcement across 189 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level.
In India Doing Business has been carried out in three main process.
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INTRODUCTION

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REGION South Asia
INCOME CATEGORY Lower middle income
POPULATION 1,252,139,596
GNI PER CAPITA (US$) 1,570
CITY COVERED MUMBAI,DELHI
INDIA RANKS 142 ON DOING BUSINESS INDEX: WORLD BANK
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2015 Rank
Doing Business
2014 rank***
Change in Rank
142 140 -2 ↓
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DTF**(% points)
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DTF**(% points)
Change in DTF**
(%
points)
53.97 52.78 1.19 ↑
DTF** is Distance to Frontier which
benchmarks economies with respect to a
measure of regulatory best practice showing
the gap between each economy’s
performance and the best performance on
each indicator. An economy’s distance to
frontier score is indicated on a scale
from 0 to 100, where 0 represents the worst
performance and 100 the frontier.
Source: PHD Research Bureau, Compiled from World Bank

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TOPICS DB 2015
Rank DB 2014 Rank Change in Rank
Starting a Business 158 156 -2
Dealing with
Construction Permits
184 183 -1
Getting Electricity 137 134 -3
Registering Property 121 115 -6
Getting Credit 36 30 -6
Protecting Minority
Investors
7 21 14
Paying Taxes 156 154 -2
Trading Across
Borders
126 122 -4
Enforcing Contracts 186 186 No change
Resolving Insolvency 137 135 -2
Source - PHD Research Bureau, compiled from World bank
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The only area ‘Protecting minority’,
has shown a significant rise in its
ranking from 21st position
last year to 7th position in the
current year.

5. Reforms Undertaken to reduce regulatory complexity and cost or strengthened legal
institutions in 2013/14 by India
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SL.No. Aspects Reforms
1 Starting a business (Simplified
pre-registration and
registration formalities)
India made starting a business easier by considerably reducing
the registration fees, but also made it more difficult by
introducing a requirement to file a declaration before the
commencement of business operations.
2 Getting electricity (Improved
regulation of connection
processes and costs)
In India the utility in Mumbai made getting electricity less costly
by reducing the security deposit for a new connection.
3 Protecting minority investors
(Increased disclosure
requirements for related-party
transactions, and increased
director liability, expanded
shareholders’ role in company
management)
India strengthened minority investor protections by requiring
greater disclosure of conflicts of interest by board members,
increasing the remedies available in case of prejudicial related-
party transactions and introducing additional safeguards for
shareholders of privately held companies.
Source - PHD Research Bureau, compiled from World Bank

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 The indicators are used to analyze economic outcomes and identify what reforms have
worked, where and why.
 Procedures should be simple ,time and cost should be minimised to attract entrepreneur
to the market.
LESSON LEARNT
 An economy’s proximity to large markets,
 The quality of its infrastructure services (other than those related to trading across borders
and getting electricity),
 The security of property from theft and looting,
 The transparency of government procurement,
 Macroeconomic conditions or the underlying strength of Institutions.
LIMITATIONS

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