India among top 5 economies for ease of starting new business: Global survey The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2021/2022 report, unveiled at the Dubai Expo, gathered data via a survey of at least 2,000 respondents across each of 47 high, medium and low-income economies. The survey of Indian respondents, who answered questions on their entrepreneurial activity, attitudes to enterprise and view of their local entrepreneurial ecosystem, found that 82 per cent think it is easy to start a business, placing India fourth globally. As many as 83 per cent believe that there are good opportunities to start a business in their area second globally and 86 per cent believe they have the skills and knowledge to start a business fourth globally.