Reserve Bank Governor on Friday said growth rate is likely to turn positive in the second half of the current financial year.
FinMin said there were no fundamental or structural factors behind the GDP contraction
The MPC in all likelihood would keep the repo rate unchanged at 4 per cent, extending the pause from its August and October meetings and reiterating the accommodative stance
Expects Budget to be cautious on fiscal expansion, sees rate cut by RBI around turn of the current financial year
S&P Global Ratings on Monday retained its forecast of 9 per cent contraction in the Indian economy for the current fiscal, saying even though there are now upside risks to growth but it will wait for more signs that COVID infections have stabilised or fallen. S&P, in its report on Asia Pacific, projected the Indian economy to grow at 10 per cent in the next fiscal. "We retain our growth forecast of negative 9 per cent in fiscal 2020-2021 and 10 per cent in fiscal 2021-2022. While there are now upside risks to growth due to a faster recovery in population mobility and household spending, the pandemic is not fully under control. "We will wait for more signs that infections have stabilised or fallen, together with high-frequency activity data for the fiscal year third quarter, before changing our forecasts," S&P said. According to the official data released last week, Indian economy recovered faster than expected in the September quarter as a pick-up in manufacturing helped ..
Despite the base effect, agriculture and allied activities maintained a steady growth of 3.4 per cent in Q2 FY2021
As expected, agriculture held up yet again, clocking a growth of 3.4 per cent for the second consecutive quarter
While the economy performed better than expected, it has a long road ahead when compared to other countries
The security level analysis shows that the large contribution of nominal returns poses a potential risk for unstable debt-GDP dynamics in India
Given the uncertainty, he said, it is difficult to predict if positive territory can be hit in the third or fourth quarter of this fiscal
The gross domestic product (GDP) had contracted by a record 23.9 per cent in the first quarter of the 2020-21 fiscal (April 2020 to March 2021) as the coronavirus lockdown pummelled economic activity
Mean forecasts put India's Q2 GDP contraction close to 10%; in Q1, the country's GDP number decline was steepest among G20 nations
India's economy shrank at an unprecedented 23.9 per cent in the first quarter
In a research note, it said India's post-COVID-19 scars could be among the worst in the world
Bats for a PPP model to address the deficit in health infrastructure
Govt will need to work on a consolidation plan
India's economy had the biggest contraction, 24 per cent year-over-year in the second quarter
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While ICRA estimates an 11 per cent contraction in the overall GDP in FY21, it expects the contraction to narrow to 5-7 per cent in the Q3 and 1-2 per cent in Q4
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