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1. Business Ranking "India climbs global business ranking. But it's not that simple" https://money.cnn.com/2017/10/31/news/economy/india-ease-of-doing-business

1. Business Ranking "India climbs global business ranking. But it's not that simple" https://money.cnn.com/2017/10/31/news/economy/india-ease-of-doing-business/index.html https://money.cnn.com/2017/10/31/news/economy/india-ease-of-... 2012 - 132 2013 - 132 2014 - 134 2015 - 142 2016 - 130 2017 - 130 2018 - 100 http://www.doingbusiness.org/data/exploreeconomies/india http://www.doingbusiness.org/data/exploreeconomies/india Samsung is also opening the world's largest Mobile phone manufacturing plant in India. That's a tremendous investment from them. 2. Corruption India's Corruption Ranking 2011 - 95 2012 - 94 2013 - 94 2014 - 85 2015 - 76 2016 - 79 2017 - 81 https://tradingeconomics.com/india/corruption-rank https://tradingeconomics.com/india/corruption-rank 3. Infrastructure Road construction by km per day built / awarded "While a total of 4,410 km highway stretches were constructed in 2014-15, it increased to 9,800 km in 2017-18." Furthermore just look at the spending. It's booming. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/highway-construction-doubles-in-4-years-with-27km-a-day-in-2017-18/articleshow/63601035.cms https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/highway-constructi... 4. Electricity There's pretty consistent growth, although growth isn't the only story. A strong reliable grid is also important, along with having investments in green technology to make the electricity generation more green. Reliability isn't up to standards yet, but it has gotten better, in my opinion. There have also been tremendous investments from the government in green tech, like solar. https://tradingeconomics.com/india/total-electricity-output-gwh-wb-data.html https://tradingeconomics.com/india/total-electricity-output-...

dmix 8y ago
From the article: > Another criticism is that countries get credit for passing laws, even if they haven't been widely implemented yet. This would be my biggest concern with these rankings. India might sound better on paper (from a very high level abstract look comparing countries) for ease of business but that doesn't mean it has translated to day-to-day business life there.
- thevardanian 8y ago
  The recent additions are not just laws, they're tangible initiatives, and infrastructure the government has built. Creating infrastructure, and reducing friction is the only thing a government can. The government is merely a mediator, a facilitator, that lays out the field and its rules, but it's up to the citizens to independently exploit that opportunity.
pavanred 8y ago
Care to also publish rankings of the country over the years in freedom of press, law and order, mob violence, transparency, economic growth, journalists/writers murdered, appointments/shortages of RTI commissioners, RTI rejection rate, lack of lokayuktas, appointments/shortages of judiciary by govt etc. (or just look it up for yourself) > There have also been tremendous investments from the government in green tech, like solar. The goal setup was a 100GW of solar capacity by 2022. It was about 2KW in 2015 and is about 20KW in 2018. We are most definitely not going to achieve the goal, perhaps not even get close. Lofty goal, sound familiar? I am sorry, I take lofty goals and promises of the Govt. with a pinch of salt until I see some actual implementation.
- rohit2412 8y ago
  Did you deliberately change GW to KW? 20 GW in 2018 with process falling 15% year on year can lead to a sudden increase. Let's pass judgement in 2021 when things are clearer.
  - pavanred 8y ago
    Edit: ...2GW in 2015 and is about 20GW in 2018... Typo, and HN doesn't allow me to update it now. Anyway, my point was that in the past 4 years we achieved 20GW and we expect to achieve 80GW in the next 4 years.
    - rohit2412 8y ago
      But it isn't linear. Price is falling exponentially (15% every year). And adoption will be more rapid as solar suddenly becomes economically viable. For a benchmark, look at China's adoption. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_China https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_China . Not at how many years they too from 20gw to 175 gw, but how much solar became viable for them last year.
- thevardanian 8y ago
  Yes. Go ahead and publish them. I dare you to. At best there are only marginal negative shifts. So please list all the data that you have. Furthermore you’re behaving as if having ambitious goals for a government is bad. I would rather have an optimistic, ambitious government that gets somewhere near the goal than a lazy “realistic” government that always ends up underestimating itself. Reaching a goal isn’t necessarily as important as simply producing a better product. Having a high expectations is a prerequisite to creating a great product. There are, again, so many improvements that India has achieved recently.

dmix 8y ago

From the article: > Another criticism is that countries get credit for passing laws, even if they haven't been widely implemented yet. This would be my biggest concern with these rankings. India might sound better on paper (from a very high level abstract look comparing countries) for ease of business but that doesn't mean it has translated to day-to-day business life there.

thevardanian 8y ago
The recent additions are not just laws, they're tangible initiatives, and infrastructure the government has built. Creating infrastructure, and reducing friction is the only thing a government can. The government is merely a mediator, a facilitator, that lays out the field and its rules, but it's up to the citizens to independently exploit that opportunity.

pavanred 8y ago

Care to also publish rankings of the country over the years in freedom of press, law and order, mob violence, transparency, economic growth, journalists/writers murdered, appointments/shortages of RTI commissioners, RTI rejection rate, lack of lokayuktas, appointments/shortages of judiciary by govt etc. (or just look it up for yourself) > There have also been tremendous investments from the government in green tech, like solar. The goal setup was a 100GW of solar capacity by 2022. It was about 2KW in 2015 and is about 20KW in 2018. We are most definitely not going to achieve the goal, perhaps not even get close. Lofty goal, sound familiar? I am sorry, I take lofty goals and promises of the Govt. with a pinch of salt until I see some actual implementation.

rohit2412 8y ago
Did you deliberately change GW to KW? 20 GW in 2018 with process falling 15% year on year can lead to a sudden increase. Let's pass judgement in 2021 when things are clearer.
- pavanred 8y ago
  Edit: ...2GW in 2015 and is about 20GW in 2018... Typo, and HN doesn't allow me to update it now. Anyway, my point was that in the past 4 years we achieved 20GW and we expect to achieve 80GW in the next 4 years.
  - rohit2412 8y ago
    But it isn't linear. Price is falling exponentially (15% every year). And adoption will be more rapid as solar suddenly becomes economically viable. For a benchmark, look at China's adoption. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_China https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_China . Not at how many years they too from 20gw to 175 gw, but how much solar became viable for them last year.
thevardanian 8y ago
Yes. Go ahead and publish them. I dare you to. At best there are only marginal negative shifts. So please list all the data that you have. Furthermore you’re behaving as if having ambitious goals for a government is bad. I would rather have an optimistic, ambitious government that gets somewhere near the goal than a lazy “realistic” government that always ends up underestimating itself. Reaching a goal isn’t necessarily as important as simply producing a better product. Having a high expectations is a prerequisite to creating a great product. There are, again, so many improvements that India has achieved recently.