Starting a Business

This topic identifies the bureaucratic and legal hurdles an entrepreneur must overcome to incorporate and register a new firm. It examines the procedures, time, and cost involved in launching a commercial or industrial firm with up to 50 employees and start-up capital of 10 times the economy's per-capita gross national income (GNI).

The table below shows the main indicators. They include:

all procedures required to register a firm,
average time spent during each procedure,
official cost of each procedure, and
the minimum capital required as a percentage of income per capita.

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Region or Economy	Procedures (number)	Time (days)	Cost (% of income per capita)
Ahmedabad	13	35	46.3
Bengaluru	13	40	64.7
Bhubaneshwar	12	37	39.9
Chennai	13	34	40.3
Gurgaon	12	33	50.7
Guwahati	13	38	40.5
Hyderabad	12	33	41.6
Indore	13	32	43.8
Jaipur	12	31	45.5
Kochi	13	41	47.2
Kolkata	13	36	39.6
Ludhiana	12	33	48.0
Mumbai	13	30	70.9
New Delhi	11	32	41.1
Noida	12	30	52.5
Patna	11	37	38.5
Ranchi	12	38	51.5

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Starting a Business

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