DOING BUSINESS WITH INDIA

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DOING BUSINESS WITH INDIA
46 economies in Sub-Saharan Africa
33 in Latin America and the Caribbean
24 in East Asia and the Pacific
24 in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
19 in the Middle East and North Africa
8 in South Asia
31 OECD high-income economies.
Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the
protection of property rights that can be compared across 185 economies
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THE 10 PARAMETERS
The index is calculated as the ranking on the simple average of its percentile
rankings on each of the 10 topics namely

Starting a business
Dealing with construction
permits
Getting electricity
Registering property
Getting credit
Protecting investors
Paying taxes
Trading across borders
Enforcing contracts
Resolving insolvency
Employing Workers
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STARTING A BUSINESS
Starting a business in India requires 12 procedures,
takes 27 days, costs 49.8% of income per capita and
requires paid-in minimum capital of 140.1% of
income per capita
Measures the ease of starting a business in an economy by recording all procedures
officially required in practice by an entrepreneur to start up.
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Ease of Starting a Business in India Over time
2004-13
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
169
173
11 11 11 11 13 13 13 12 12 12
89 89
71
35 33
30 30 29 29 27
53.4
49.5
62
78.4
74.6
70.1
66.1
56.5
46.8
49.8
428
390.1
352.1
314.4
269.5
239.4
210.9
188.8
149.6
140.1
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DB2004 DB2005 DB2006 DB2007 DB2008 DB2009 DB2010 DB2011 DB2012 DB2013
Rank Procedures(number) Time(days) Cost (% of income per capita) Paid-in Min. Capital (% of income per capita)
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CONSTRUCTION PERMITS
Dealing with construction permits in India
requires 34 procedures, takes 196 days and
costs 1528.0% of income per capita
Records the procedures, time and cost for a business to obtain all the necessary
approvals to build a simple commercial warehouse
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The ease of dealing with construction permits
in India over time 2006-13
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GETTING ELECTRICITY
Getting electricity there requires 7
procedures, takes 67 days and costs
247.3% of income per capita
Records all procedures required for a local business to obtain a permanent electricity
connection and the time and cost to complete them
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The Ease of Getting Electricity in India
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REGISTERING PROPERTY
Registering property in India requires 5 procedures,
takes 44 days and costs 7.3% of the property value
Records the full sequence of procedures necessary for a business to purchase property
from another business and transfer the property title to the buyers name
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The Ease of Registering Property in India over
time 2005-13
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GETTING CREDIT
Assesses the sharing of credit information and the legal rights of borrowers and
lenders with respect to secured transactions
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The Ease of Getting Credit in India over time
2005-13
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PROTECTING INVESTORS
Measures the strength of minority shareholder protections against directors use of
corporate assets for personal gainor self-dealing
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The Strength of Investor Protections in India
over time 2006-13
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WHERE INDIAN ECONOMY STAND TODAY?

On average, firms make :
33 tax payments a year.
Spend 243 hours a year filing.
Preparing and paying taxes and pay total
taxes amounting to 61.8% of profit.
This years threshold* is 25.7%.
PAYING TAXES
*Threshold is the highest total tax rate among
the top 15% of economies in the ranking on
the total tax rate. Calculated yearly basis.
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TRADING ACROSS BORDERS
Year Reform
2008 India eased trade by introducing ICEGATE - an EDI system that enabled to lodge
customs declarations via the internet, facilitated operation of a Risk
Management system (RMS),
E-manifest system which allows shipping lines to send in
Advance and an E-payment system.
2009 Implementation of EDI (Electronic data interchange) reduced the export time.
2010-13 No reform as measured
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EXPORT (number) : Changes over the Time
Documents
to
export(num
ber)
cost to
export(US $
per
container)
Time to
export in
days
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IMPORT (number) : Changes over the Time
Documents to
import(number)
cost to import(US $
per container)
Time to Import
(Days)
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ENFORCING CONTRACTS
How India and Comparator
economies rank on the ease of
enforcing contracts
Measures the efficiency of the judicial system in
resolving a commercial dispute before local courts
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Summary of procedures for enforcing a
contract in India and the time and cost
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RESOLVING INSOLVENCY
A robust bankruptcy system functions as a filter, ensuring the survival
of economically efficient companies and reallocating the resources of
inefficient ones.

By improving the expectations of creditors and debtors about the
outcome of insolvency proceedings, well-functioning insolvency
systems can facilitate access to finance, save more viable businesses
and thereby improve growth and sustainability in the economy
overall.

How India and comparator
economies rank on the ease of
resolving insolvency
Previous
Year: 109
th

Rank
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Time (Years)
Cost (% of
the estate)
Recovery
Rate (Cents
on the
dollar)
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EMPLOYING WORKERS
Minimum wage for a 19-year-
old worker or an apprentice
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COMPARISON WITH BRICS
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South Africa
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Russian Federation
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