In 2016, Stanford Economist John Cochrane correlated economic growth (using the variable GDP Per Capita) and ease of doing business (using the World Bank’s Distance to Frontier score, which is now called the Ease of Doing Business score). He found a tight positive correlation between the business ...
Centre for Civil Society's concept note on Ease of Doing Business cites IDFC Institute's enterprise survey. Excerpts:
"Each year DIPP, NITI Aayog and the World Bank together assess the progress made by states against ease of doing business action items set the previous year. The ...
Resident Senior Fellow, Vivek Dehejia spoke on a panel on business reforms at the South Asia Conclave, organised by the Oxford University Press, in New Delhi. Other panelists included T.N. Ninan, Chairman, Business Standard and Kanta Murali, co-editor of the book, Business and Politic...
Gurucharan Das in this Times of India peice quotes the IDFC Enterprise Survey to state that the Modi government has progressed on implementing the reforms agenda.
He states " India has risen 30 places in the World Bank’s global ranking in the Ease of Doing Business (EoDB). More signi...
Reuben Abraham, CEO, IDFC Institute, in conversation with News World India, clarifies differences in methodology of the Ease of Doing Business survey it conducted with NITI Aayog, and the one World Bank conducts globally. He also touched upon how most fundamental reforms important for the economy ar...
The NITI Aaoyog has issed a clarification regarding the Ease of Doing Business Report launched on August 28, 2017.
"In recent years, there has been tremendous progress in easing various processes related to doing business. This has been verified by the World Bank... It is important to ...
Vivek Dehejia, Resident Senior Fellow, and Vaidehi Tandel, Junior Fellow, talk about the NITI Aayog-IDFC Institute Enterprise Survey at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) in Mussoorie in June 2017....
Praveen Chakravarty, Senior Fellow at IDFC Institute, weighed in on the reasons behind the trend of declining startup growth in 2016 in an Indian Express article. He said:
"The decline was ironical...Just after the government launched a Startup India initiative on Janua...
In this Indian Express article, Bibek Debroy, explains some of the reasons why India's performance in cross border trade as per the World Bank Ease of Doing Business report is poor.
"The logistics story isn’t that good. Broadly, major problems are too many unorganised and unregistered pla...
Resident Senior Fellow Dr. Vivek Dehejia presented a lecture "Where is India Going?" at the Center of Financial and Monetary Studies at LUISS Guido Carli in Rome, on October 18, 2016. LUISS is one of Italy's leading private universities. The talk focussed on the challenges of improving the doing bus...