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GDP: The devil is in the revisions

Six iterations of annual data over a three-year period raise serious questions about the reliability of national income data as a basis for sound policymaking

Best of BS Opinion: Clarity for FDI, rising discom debt, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces of the day

Getting the growth back?

It would be a major miracle if the economy does not contract this year

Maxim of the fish: New MSME norms may not be a blessing for small business

Enhancing the investment and turnover limits for MSMEs was overdue, but the smaller units will have serious reservations

Vocal for local initiative is not xenophobic, says BJP's Sanju Verma

Big bang reforms have been the norm under Modi government, writes Sanju Verma

Intuition, not prediction

The Covid crisis makes "data driven" projections inaccurate, as the past provides zero guidance for the future.

India coronavirus dispatch: The human body's immune response to the virus

From India's first non-agri-driven recession, to Parliament missing in action, and why study suggests blood cancer patients usually survive Covid-19 - read these and more in today's India dispatch

Worrying macro dynamics

Growth in govt spending is leading to fiscal stress, crowding out

The problem of tax buoyancy

The Union government's tax buoyancy has never been very high

Untested Covid control

Will the strategy of society instead of the State controlling the virus be tested by rising deaths?

Moody's downgrade: Expect bouts of correction; sell-off in markets unlikely

Stock markets generally discount an outcome a few months in advance. They might have seen the bottom in March, unless a more ferocious second wave results in a fresh lockdown, writes Ambareesh Baliga

Summit of opportunity

G11, if it materialises, is good for India

Back to February 28

Variation between revised and final Budget numbers has grown

Internet speed to power: Weekly indicators show economy is picking up

Weekly economic indicators show a rise in economic activity in days leading up government announcing easing coronavirus lockdown

Statsguru: Economy was in grips of a slowdown even before Covid-19 hit

Manufacturing is weakening, as is the job-generating construction sector

Slowdown, then pandemic

GDP data shows virus hit an already weakened economy

Covid-19 lockdown: FY21 GDP growth rate forecasts pose a big worry

However on the extreme ends, Bernstein pegged fall in the gross domestic product (GDP) at 7 per cent and Asian Development Bank projected GDP growth at 4 per cent

Indian economy may expand by around 5% in FY22: Ex-RBI governor Subbarao

According to Subbarao, the country is going to face its worst recession in the current financial year

States' deficit, market borrowings to increase to 4.5% of GDP: Ind-Ra

State governments were already faced with a lower-than-budgeted share in central taxes and subdued own revenue growth, when the 21 days economic lockdown was imposed from March 25

Covid's economic toll on Maharashtra

Maharashtra can expect to get additional funding from the increased allocation of Rs 40,000 crore to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act announced by the Centre