Improving the business environment is often seen as an inclusive answer to growth challenges: a vibrant business ecosystem can attract investments to further fuel the economy, create wealth as a consequence, while redistribution in a well-designed ma...

Visiting Fellow at the IDFC Institute, Shankkar Aiyar, writes in the The New Indian Express about what still needs to be done in order to significantly improve the Ease of Doing Business environment in India....

Junior fellow, Vaidehi Tandel and Senior analyst Kadambari Shah at IDFC Institute, write about the importance of communication of reforms instituted by the state governments for Ease of Doing Business, to the public....

Resident Senior Fellow, Vivek Dehejia, quotes the NITI Aayog-IDFC Institute joint Enterprise survey on the ease of doing business and its importance to a country's economy.

Ease of doing business depends largely on State-level initiatives. Such surveys will enable governments to address pain points.

It is true that GDP growth has been decelerating, but it is also true that the recent fluctuations are much smaller in amplitude than we have observed in earlier years

Firms in India are smaller and less productive than they should be, and burdensome regulation is one important culprit.

Stringent land-use regulations have been a major source of housing market distortions in Indian cities.

The article highlights the importance of creating competition between states to improve business environment in Sri Lanka

Manish Sabharwal writes in Indian Express: "Unrealistic ambition and incremental reforms can be self-fulfilling prophecies."