What Indian businesses actually face
Not the problems that make headlines — the ones that change how firms behave. Each piece is anchored to series already tracked on this site, so the argument and the evidence cannot drift apart.
6 pieces
| The contract you cannot enforce Judicial delay is the tax no budget lists. It changes who Indian firms are willing to trade with, and how large they are willing to grow. |
| Forty-seven thousand compliances India has spent five years deleting rules. The burden that remains is less about the number of rules than about who bears the risk of reading them wrong. |
| The cost of distance India's logistics performance has improved substantially. The remaining cost is concentrated in the parts nobody photographs. |
| The air is a business cost India's air quality is usually discussed as a health story or an environmental one. It is also, straightforwardly, a constraint on where firms can put people. |
| The missing middle India has a large informal sector and a small number of very large firms. The gap between them is where productivity growth normally comes from. |
| What India does not measure A country cannot manage what it cannot see. India's statistical system has real strengths and several specific, consequential blind spots. |