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Mains Paper 3: Indian Economy | Issues relating growth and development.
The following things are important from UPSC perspective:
Prelims: Ease of Doing Business Report 2018
Mains level: Factors leading India to improve its ranking on Ease of Doing Business index and the problems that needs to be solved to further improve its performance.
News
Context
- The World Bank released its latest Doing Business Report (DBR, 2019) in New Delhi.
India’s Performance
- India has recorded a jump of 23 positions against its rank of 100 in 2017.
- It is placed now at 77thrank among 190 countries with a leap of 23 ranks.
- The DBR ranks countries on the basis of Distance to Frontier (DTF), a score that shows the gap of an economy to the global best practice.
- This year, India’s DTF score improved to 67.23 from 60.76 in the previous year.
- As a result of continued efforts by the Government, India has improved its rank by 53 positions in last two years and 65positions in last four years.
Doing Business Assessment of India
- The Doing Business assessment provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 190 economies on ten parameters affecting a business through its life cycle.
- India has improved its rank in 6 out of 10 indicators and has moved closer to international best practices (Distance to Frontier score) on 7 out of the 10 indicators.
- Indicators where India improved its rank are as follows:
| S. No. | Indicator | 2017 | 2018 | Change |
| 1 | Construction Permits | 181 | 52 | +129 |
| 2 | Trading Across Borders | 146 | 80 | +66 |
| 3 | Starting a Business | 156 | 137 | +19 |
| 4 | Getting Credit | 29 | 22 | +7 |
| 5 | Getting Electricity | 29 | 24 | +5 |
| 6 | Enforcing Contracts | 164 | 163 | +1 |
| Overall rank | 100 | 77 | +23 | |
Important features of India’s performance this year are:
- The World Bank has recognized India as one of the top improvers for the year.
- This is the second consecutive year for which India has been recognized as one of the top improvers.
- India is the first BRICS and South Asian country to be recognized as top improvers in consecutive years.
- India has recorded the highest improvement in two years by any large country since 2011 in the Doing business assessment by improving its rank by 53 positions.
- As a result of continued performance, India is now placed at first position among South Asian countries as against 6th in 2014.