India at 77 Rank in World Bank’s Doing Business Report
New Delhi: The World Bank released its latest Doing Business Report(DBR, 2019) todayin New Delhi. India has recorded a jump of 23 positions against its rank of 100 in 2017 to be placed now at 77thrank among 190 countries assessed by the World Bank. India'sleap of23 ranks in the Ease of Doing Business ranking is significant considering that last year India had improved its rank by 30 places, a rare feat for any large and diverse country of the size of India. 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.
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. The DBR ranks countries on the basis of Distance to Frontier (DTF), a score that shows the gap of aneconomy to the global best practice. This year, India’s DTF score improved to 67.23 from 60.76 in the previous year.
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. But, the most dramatic improvements have been registered in the indicators related to 'Construction Permits' and 'Trading across Borders'. In grant of construction permits, India's rank improved from 181 in 2017 to 52in 2018, an improvement of 129 ranks in a single year. In 'Trading across Borders', India's rank improved by 66 positions moving from 146 in 2017 to 80in 2018. The changes in six 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 |
The important features of India's performance this year are:
Indicatorwise highlights of India’s performance are:
A. Construction Permits –
B. Trading Across Borders –
C. Starting a Business -
D. Access to Credit
E. Access to Electricity
Improvement have taken place due to the commitment of the Government to carry out comprehensive and complex reforms, supported by the bureaucracy which has changed its mindset from a regulator to a facilitator. The Government has undertaken an extensive exercise of stakeholder consultations to understand challenges of the industry, government process re-engineering to provide simplified and streamlined processes to create a more conducive business environment in the country. As a result of continued efforts, India's rank has improved as follows:
Year |
2014 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
Overall rank |
142 |
130 |
100 |
77 |
DTF |
53.97 |
56.05 |
60.76 |
67.23 |
The eight indicators in which India has improved its rank over last four years:
S. No. |
Indicator |
2014 |
2018 |
Change |
1 |
Construction Permits |
184 |
52 |
+132 |
2 |
Getting Electricity |
137 |
24 |
+113 |
3 |
Trading across Borders |
126 |
80 |
+46 |
4 |
Paying Taxes |
156 |
121 |
+35 |
5 |
Resolving Insolvency |
137 |
108 |
+29 |
6 |
Enforcing Contracts |
186 |
163 |
+23 |
7 |
Starting a Business |
158 |
137 |
+21 |
8 |
Getting Credit |
36 |
22 |
+14 |
Implementation of reforms required coordination within various Ministries and government agencies: