Economic growth is positively correlated with ease of doing business. This trend holds for countries across income groups.

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...

The improvement in the World Bank Ranking as well as the study by IDFC/Niti Aayog based on an enterprise survey of over 3,200 companies, gives tangible grounds to believe institutional reforms on the ground have finally begun.

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....

Reuben Abraham, CEO, IDFC Institute, clarifies aspects of the Ease of Doing Business survey that interviewed 3,276 manufacturing firms cross the country

Shankkar Aiyar deconstructs India's poor performance on World Bank's Ease of Doing Business ranking.

The enactment of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code itself, even without implementation, will improve India’s ranking in the World Bank report.

Emerging economies are losing steam in their bid to catch up with the developed ones in terms of per capita income

Watch Pritchett discuss methodological issues with current measures of development and how such indicators can help countries strategise for growth.

When it comes to bankruptcy reforms, de facto outcomes are more important than de jure improvements.