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Gross domestic misery rising in US: Recovery is bypassing those who need it

Jobs and GDP, by contrast, sort of are the economy. But they aren't the economy's point

Law should be made for spending 6% of GDP on education: Manish Sisodia

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Monday said a law should be made for spending six per cent of GDP to education

Power generation, rail freight show gains among weekly economic indicators

Gains seen compared to the previous week, besides improvement relative to 2019

India's GDP contraction should alarm everyone: Ex RBI Guv Raghuram Rajan

A week after India reported a significant contraction in its GDP during the April-June quarter of 2020-21 fiscal, Raghuram Rajan has said that the negative GDP growth numbers should alarm everyone

Experts advise caution on stagflation fears amid 24% GDP contraction

Say Centre, RBI should ensure their policies don't stoke inflation

Global markets ignoring current, potential negatives: HDFC Securities CEO

Dhiraj Relli, MD and CEO of HDFC Securities says that a weak dollar could help improve India's trade and current account situation and FPI flows

Are Covid and the economy still linked?

The pandemic, much less fatal than earlier feared, is now beyond control, but the economy can still be helped

Economic contraction: India paid the price of lockdown for little reward

The country reported Monday its worst slump since quarterly numbers began publication in 1996: Gross domestic product shrank 23.9% in April to June

Top biz headlines: GDP shrinks 23.9%, Adani-GVK deal, JioFiber, and more

Here are the top business headlines on Tuesday

GDP shrinkage: It wasn't just Covid-19 lockdown that brought us here

GDP shrinkage is the cost of continued virus spread

Q1 GDP data released today: Key things to note

This is the first instance of an economic contraction for the country in at least four decades, and also the first GDP decline since India began publishing quarterly numbers in 1996

MoSPI data may rely on proxies, understate GDP shrinkage in Q1: Experts

Experts peg the GDP fall at up to 35%, but statistics office may calculate it at 15-16% due to unavailability of data for informal sector

'Wounds in the loan-book are deep'

Indian economy is facing an unprecedented contraction in India's GDP in FY21, described as the "worst health and economic crisis in [the] last 100 years," by the RBI Governor

S Korea central bank holds rates, but cuts GDP forecast on Covid concerns

The Bank of Korea kept the seven-day repurchase rate at a record low 0.50%

Growth risks

India needs reforms to enhance productivity

Education for the future

India needs to liberate education from political control and give institutions the autonomy needed to innovate

Covid-19 impact: GDP to contract 16.5% in first quarter, says SBI report

It attributed the revision mainly to smaller gross value added (GVA) degrowth by listed companies for the quarter

Banks in India: Too few to fail

Forget the health of the banks, what should be worrying the regulators is just the number of banks through which such financial intermediation can take place

'Mortgage-GDP ratio, at less than 10%, is poor'

Another mechanism to promote low-ticket housing is through a safeguard quite like the credit guarantee scheme for micro, small and medium enterprises, which has seen a decent offtake

IIP contraction slows to 16.6% in June amid industrial activity relaxation

Seasonally adjusted, industrial production grows nearly 24% month-on-month