Doing Business 2017: Equal Opportunity for All Report, by World Bank Group

Doing Business 2017: Equal Opportunity for All, a World Bank Group flagship publication, is the 14th in a series of annual reports measuring the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 190 economies—from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe

Economic Freedom of the World 2016 Annual Report

India slips by 10 positions and ranks 112th amongst 159 countries and territories included in the Economic Freedom of the World: 2016 Annual Report, released worldwide by Centre for Civil Society in conjunction with Canada’s Fraser Institute. Hong Kong has the highest level of economic freedom worldwide, followed by Singapore, New Zealand, Switzerland, Canada, Georgia, Ireland,

The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development (Amendment) Bill, 2015

The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development (Amendment) Bill, 2015 is  to (i) enhance the existing limit for investment in plant and machinery considering changes in price index and cost of inputs consistent with the emerging role of the MSMEs in various Global Value Chains, (ii) include medium enterprises apart from small enterprises in section 7(9) to enable the aforesaid category of

The Commercial Courts, Commercial Division And Commercial Appellate Division of High Courts Act , 2015

The Act essentially introduces setting up of a Commercial Court at District level and a Commercial Division in the High Court, having ordinary original civil jurisdiction to deal with Commercial Dispute of a Specified Value, not being less than Rs.1,00,00,000 or such higher value as may be notified by the Central Government.

Question No. 2115 Dated 16.03.2016 of Rajya Sabha

(a)        whether Government proposes todevelop a domestic version of the ease ofdoing business index/indicators forassessing the overall business performanceof the country;

(b)        if so, the details thereof; and

(c)        the steps taken by Government toimprove India's standing in the ease of doingbusiness index along with thecorresponding results thereon?