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# Ease of Doing Business
- URL: https://www.upscprep.com/ease-of-doing-business/
- Published: 2022-10-08T15:13:31.000Z
- Updated: 2022-10-08T15:13:31.000Z
- Author: UPSCprep.com
- Tags: UPSC Mains

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 propert**y – 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  

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**India 2019Rank:** 63rd