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 ...
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...
This Livemint article talks about the World Bank's Doing Business Report, and how India will need to go beyond rankings to make a tangible difference.
"The Indian government has taken great interest in addressing the problems of doing business in the country and improving Indiaâ€...
Lant Pritchett, Professor of the Practice of International Development at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, joined us at the sidelines of the IDFC Institute Dialogues on Political Economy to discuss methodological issues with current measures of Development and Ease of Doing Bu...
In a recent post published in Ajay Shah's blog, Rajeswari Sengupta discusses how the draft bill proposed by the Bankruptcy Law Reforms Committee (BLRC) would change India's "Resolving Insolvency" score in the World Bank's Doing Business Index.
The BLRC recently released its report...
