In an annual global competitiveness report released by a Switzerland based business school, Indian continues to occupy 44th position on account of various problems like high corporate taxes and existence of a parallel economy. Meanwhile, US continued to top the ranking in the report due to its strong business efficiency and financial sector, its innovation drive and the effectiveness of its infrastructure.
Further, International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in its annual world competitiveness ranking of 61 economies for the year 2015 highlighted that India’s 15 biggest improvements in the overall performance of the economy were real GDP growth per capita, government decisions, transparency, risk of political instability, labor productivity and adaptability of government policy among others, whereas its 15 biggest declines were direct investment flows abroad, government budget surplus/deficit, pension funding, food cost, parallel economy, unemployment legislation, Pupil-teacher ratio (primary education), pollution problems, foreign investors and real corporate taxes were among others.
Also the report termed that government’s aim of achieving high growth with zero defect, zero effect model, mobilization of resources for public investment, implementation of the Goods and Services Tax, skill development and employment generation and infrastructure development were some of the key challenges for the economy in 2015.
Notably, however India’s economic performance improved from 21 to 16 rank, and business efficiency slightly increased from 34 to 33, while its government efficiency remained at the same spot on 47 even as infrastructure declined from 57 to 58. Interestingly, India ranked 13 th in Asia pacific region, with the top ten ranks including Hong Kong at 2 nd and Singapore at third followed by Switzerland, which dropped to fourth place from third earlier. This was followed by Canada, Luxembourg, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and finally, Germany at tenth position.
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