GST, bankruptcy code will boost India’s ranking globally: World Bank

They also feel that the rating agencies are biased when it comes to rating developing countries like India vis-a-vis developed countries when it comes to several aspects like ease of doing business and other issues. 

Giving a presentation on various aspects of economy and the reforms undertaken by the government in the last three years at a meeting with select editors, the officials said that the government has undertaken 183 reforms in all. But the World Bank has taken note of only 133 fully or partially implemented measures.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who was also present, said the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code was not taken into account because it was not implemented last year. 

The officials said as many as 122 reforms have been implemented and still 88 were under implementation. Once these reforms along with structural reforms like the GST and the IBC are taken into account they will give us a major boost in rating, they said. 

They said the Moody’s has favourably commented on demonetisation and other institutional changes. Inflation handling has been acknowledged while Aadhaar has ensured institutional transparency.