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Doing Business 2015 - India Summary

Core Content

Doing Business 2015 is a flagship report by the World Bank Group that evaluates and compares business regulations across 189 economies. It measures the ease of doing business by analyzing 11 key areas in the business life cycle, including starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, resolving insolvency, and labor market regulation.

The report provides a ranking and a distance to frontier (DTF) score for each economy. The ranking reflects how easy it is to operate a business, while the DTF score indicates how far an economy is from the best regulatory practices in each area.

Main Points

• India's Overall Ranking and DTF Score:

  • India's ease of doing business ranking in 2015 is 142, a slight decline from 140 in 2014.
  • India's DTF score is 54, up from 52.8 in 2014, indicating progress in regulatory reforms.

• Key Business Indicators:

  • Starting a Business:

    • Rank: 158 (2015), 156 (2014)
    • DTF Score: 68.42, 65.54
    • Procedures: 11.9, 11.5
    • Time (days): 28.4, 26.1
    • Cost (% of income per capita): 12.2, 38.9

  • Dealing with Construction Permits:

    • Rank: 184 (2015), 183 (2014)
    • DTF Score: 30.89, 29.70
    • Procedures: 25.4, 25.4
    • Time (days): 185.9, 185.9
    • Cost (% of warehouse value): 28.2, 31.3

  • Getting Electricity:

    • Rank: 137 (2015), 134 (2014)
    • DTF Score: 63.06, 62.55
    • Procedures: 7.0, 7.0
    • Time (days): 105.7, 105.7
    • Cost (% of income per capita): 487.7, 611.6

  • Registering Property:

    • Rank: 121 (2015), 115 (2014)
    • DTF Score: 60.40, 60.40
    • Procedures: 7.0, 7.0
    • Time (days): 47.0, 47.0
    • Cost (% of property value): 7.0, 7.0

  • Getting Credit:

    • Rank: 36 (2015), 30 (2014)
    • DTF Score: 65.00, 65.00
    • Strength of legal rights index (0-12): 6, 6
    • Depth of credit information index (0-8): 7, 7

  • Protecting Minority Investors:

    • Rank: 7 (2015), 21 (2014)
    • DTF Score: 72.50, 65.83
    • Extent of conflict of interest regulation index (0-10): 6.7, 5.7
    • Extent of shareholder governance index (0-10): 7.8, 7.5
    • Strength of minority investor protection index (0-10): 7.3, 6.6

  • Paying Taxes:

    • Rank: 156 (2015), 154 (2014)
    • DTF Score: 55.53, 55.64
    • Payments (number per year): 33.0, 33.0
    • Time (hours per year): 243.0, 243.0

  • Trading Across Borders:

    • Rank: 126 (2015), 122 (2014)
    • DTF Score: 65.47, 64.89
    • Documents to export: 7, 7
    • Time to export (days): 17.1, 17.1
    • Cost to export (US$ per container): 1,332.0, 1,332.0

  • Enforcing Contracts:

    • Rank: 186 (2015), 186 (2014)
    • DTF Score: 25.81, 25.81
    • Time (days): 1,420.0, 1,420.0
    • Cost (% of claim): 39.6, 39.6

  • Resolving Insolvency:

    • Rank: 137 (2015), 135 (2014)
    • DTF Score: 32.60, 32.43
    • Time (years): 4.3, 4.3
    • Cost (% of estate): 9.0, 9.0
    • Recovery rate (cents on the dollar): 25.7, 25.4

Key Changes in Methodology

• The ease of doing business ranking and all topic-level rankings are now based on distance to frontier scores.
• For the 11 largest economies, data for a second city have been included in the dataset.
• The getting credit methodology has been revised, with updated indices and coverage requirements.
• The protecting investors indicator set has been renamed to protecting minority investors, and its scope has been expanded.
• The resolving insolvency indicator set now includes a strength of legal framework index.
• The paying taxes DTF score calculation has been changed to a nonlinear approach.
• The employing workers indicator set has been renamed to labor market regulation, and the scope has been updated to focus on the retail sector.

Comparator Economies

• Bangladesh generally performs better than India in most indicators.
• China has improved significantly in several areas, such as registering property and getting credit.
• Mexico and Russia show better performance in dealing with construction permits and resolving insolvency.
• New Zealand and Singapore are the best performers in most categories, including starting a business, getting electricity, and enforcing contracts.

Conclusion

The report highlights that while India has made some progress in improving its business environment, it still faces significant regulatory challenges compared to top-performing economies. The DTF score and rankings provide a useful tool for policymakers to identify areas for reform and benchmark their performance against other economies.