> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.upscprep.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# Ease of Doing Business
- URL: https://www.upscprep.com/ease-of-doing-business-upsc/
- Published: 2022-08-25T04:30:51.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-25T04:30:51.000Z
- Author: UPSCprep.com

This Index given by **World Bank.**   
  
A nation's ranking on the index is based on the average of 10 subindices:

1. Starting a business – Procedures, time, cost and minimum capital to open a new business
2. Dealing with construction permits – Procedures, time and cost to build a warehouse
3. Getting electricity – procedures, time and cost required for a business to obtain a permanent electricity connection for a newly constructed warehouse
4. Registering property – Procedures, time and cost to register commercial real estate
5. Getting credit – Strength of legal rights index, depth of credit information index
6. Protecting investors – Indices on the extent of disclosure, extent of director liability and ease of shareholder suits
7. Paying taxes – Number of taxes paid, hours per year spent preparing tax returns and total tax payable as share of gross profit
8. Trading across borders – Number of documents, cost and time necessary to export and import
9. Enforcing contracts – Procedures, time and cost to enforce a debt contract
10. Resolving insolvency – The time, cost and recovery rate (%) under bankruptcy proceeding

  
**Distance to frontier** – Shows the distance of each economy to the "frontier," which represents the highest performance observed on each of the indicators across all economies

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/92/07/9207d054-5e99-4b26-b8c8-424994497a07/content/images/2022/08/images--23-.jpeg)

India's performance in Ease of Doing Business Index