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Demonetization has potential to accelerate the formalization of the economy: World Bank

05 Jun 2017 Evaluate

Government’s announcement of the demonetization of high-value notes seven months ago has received some support from the World Bank. The unilateral agency in its latest ‘India Development Report’ has said that in the long term, demonetization has potential to accelerate the formalization of the economy and will help in raising revenues on sustained basis as more & more people will come under the tax net.

In its exclusive section ‘India’s Great Currency Exchange’ of the report, the World Bank has stated that even if the initial impact of demonetization on banks was negative, the longer-term impact may be more positive if the new steady-state level of deposits is higher and usage of electronic payments increases. Besides, it has said that demonetization promotes a reallocation of resources from the informal to the formal economy.

The World Bank report is of the view that demonetisation has the potential to accelerate the formalisation of the economy, saying that formalization is ultimately a positive transformation that can lead to greater efficiency, adding that India's low aggregate productivity is in part due to the prevalence of a large number of informal unproductive firms. World Bank though said that India still needs to bring in complementary measures for ease of doing business to ensure that the new equilibrium of higher formalisation prevails.

While highlighting the country’s other complementary measures related to the ease of doing business, the report has said that the smooth implementation of GST will be another major complementary reform to promote formalization, as firms have a strong incentive to register with GST to obtain input tax credits.

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