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different subcomponents of the EoDB index. It is evident from the Figure 16a that the indicators
that seem to be laggard in the EoDB-2019 like, ‘paying tax’ and ‘resolving insolvency’ have
actually striven towards the frontier but still need additional efforts and policy support to be at
the frontier. Contrary to this, the indicators like ‘protecting the minority investor’ and ‘getting
electricity’ may seem like laggard in intertemporal analysis but in reality they are very close to
the frontier (Figure 16B). The major causes of worry are the subcomponents that are laggards in
both cross-section and an inter-temporal analysis like ‘registering the property’ and ‘enforcing
the contracts’.

Figure 13a: India’s Rank in Ease Figure 13b: India’s Score in Ease of Doing
of Doing Business Business (DB17-20 methodology)
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50
63 71.0
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70 77 67.5
80
90 100 65
100 60.9
110 60
120 130 130 55.9
133 134 132 132 134 54.5
130 142 55
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2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Source: Survey calculations based on EoDB data.

Figure 14: India’s Overall Score and Rank in Ease of Doing Business vis-à-vis peers

85 21 12 5
80 33 31 28
75 84 73 70 63 60 59
Score of EoDB 65 124 108 99 95 94
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50 168 165
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Bangladesh Myanmar Brazil Pakistan Sri Lanka Philippines Nepal South Africa Indonesia Vietnam India Mexico Chile Turkey China Thailand Malaysia Korea, Rep.

Note: Bars represent the overall score in EoDB-2019 and the numbers at the top of bar Russian Federation
represent the rank in EoDB-2019.

Source: Survey calculations based on EoDB data.