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Leader’s view<br />

LEADER’S VIEW<br />

A bright spot in the<br />

economic landscape<br />

Over the last three years, out of all the major economies India’s<br />

has been the fastest-growing, writes Narendra Modi<br />

Narendra Modi<br />

Prime Minister, India<br />

India remains a bright spot in the subdued<br />

economic landscape across the world.<br />

India has emerged as the fastest-growing<br />

major economy over the last three years, with<br />

GDP growth rate of over seven per cent.<br />

We have moved up 32 places in last two<br />

years in the Global Competitiveness Index of the<br />

World Economic Forum – this is the highest for<br />

any country.<br />

India also moved up 19 places on the 2016<br />

Logistics Performance Index of the World Bank.<br />

We have also moved up 16 places on the<br />

Global Innovation Index of WIPO in 2016.<br />

We are third among the top 10 FDI<br />

destinations listed by UNCTAD.<br />

We are moving fast towards becoming<br />

a digital economy.<br />

GST is among the most historic reforms<br />

India has ever done — and it is going to be<br />

implemented from next month.<br />

In the last two years, we have moved towards<br />

a low-tax regime both on the personal as well as<br />

the corporate side.<br />

We have lowered the corporate-tax rate from<br />

30 per cent to 25 per cent, particularly for new<br />

investments and smaller ventures.<br />

New laws and institutions for bankruptcy<br />

and insolvency as well as IPR and arbitration<br />

are now in place.<br />

More than 7,000 reforms have been<br />

implemented on the ease-of-doing-business<br />

front.<br />

Thirty-six white industries have been taken<br />

out from the requirement of environmental<br />

clearance.<br />

Similarly, more than 50 items have been taken<br />

out of the defence list.<br />

Customs clearance has been made 24–7 at<br />

19 ports and at 17 air cargo complexes.<br />

Power connection is provided within a time<br />

frame of 15 days.<br />

India’s ranking is now up by 111 places on the<br />

‘Getting Electricity’ parameter of the World Bank.<br />

Now, India has one of the most liberal FDI<br />

Policy regimes in the world. More than 90 per<br />

cent of the foreign investment flows are under<br />

automatic route… Our FDI outlook has been<br />

ranked highly positive by various international<br />

agencies.<br />

There has also been tremendous growth in the<br />

FDI inflows in the last three years and it reached<br />

$60 billion in 2016-17.<br />

Speech to the Indo-German Business Summit,<br />

Berlin, 30 May <strong>2017</strong>. <strong>G20</strong><br />

4 th<br />

Summit<br />

2014<br />

Elected<br />

G7<strong>G20</strong>.com July <strong>2017</strong> • <strong>G20</strong> <strong>Germany</strong>: The <strong>Hamburg</strong> Summit 25

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