Page 20 - India Gdp Growth

Lest we forget

Sub-optimal responses against viral pandemics and crony lending would keep resurfacing if voters do not hold govts accountable

Monsoon cheer

India must grab some of the space vacated by China

CRISIL cuts India's FY21 growth forecast to 3.5% amid coronavirus outbreak

The agency welcomed the Rs 1.70-trillion package announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

BofA, CRISIL cut India growth forecast amid coronavirus outbreak

Crisil had earlier forecast the GDP printing in a 5.7 per cent expansion

Top headlines: India takes stock of coronavirus impact; YES Bank 'normal'

Moody's Investors Service lowered India's GDP growth forecast, predicting the coronavirus will hurt the country's economy.

Moody's cuts India's GDP growth to 5.3% for 2020 over Covid-19 outbreak

Moody's said oil price shock adds to growth and fiscal pressures for exposed sovereigns.

Best of BS Opinion: Financial market stress, policy after COVID-19 and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day

Problematic revisions: We need fewer, quicker economic growth estimates

The CSO releases as many as 6 estimates of India's annual economic output growth; believe it or not, these estimates for the same year's economic output are released over a period of three years!

A question of answers

Book review of All the Wrong Turns: Perspectives on the Indian Economy

Housing finance has key role in making India $5 trn economy: Keki Mistry

For the housing sector, the authorities are aware of the strong linkages it has with the economy.

India's market cap-to-GDP now below long-term average of 76%: Report

Over the last 12 months, MSCI India has remained flat, while MSCI EM has slid 1.5%

Low on investor confidence and growth, private banks in for tough days

Majority of private bank stocks are down 10-33% YTD, indicating weaning conviction in the sector

Letter to BS: India battles low GDP growth, unemployment and Coronavirus

The unemployment rate in February 2020, increased from 7.16% in January to 7.78% while GDP growth declined to 4.7% in Q3FY20. If that was not enough coronavirus is disrupting the supply chain now

Coronavirus likely to impact India's March-qtr GDP growth by 0.2%: Report

Two cases tested positive for the coronavirus infection in India on Monday, after the initial set of three cases in Kerala were successfully treated

FPIs invest Rs 6,554 cr in markets in February over weak data, coronavirus

On a positive note, the data, however, showed that FPIs have been net buyers in the Indian markets since September 2019

Q3 GDP growth to be below 5%, but better than Q2, say economists

Govt spending would be a key driver of mild improvement in GDP growth, says ICRA

Ambitious $5-trillion economy target sounds too idealistic: Niti official

Dispelling concerns over the slowdown, Dalmia said that tough times don't last but tough nations do

Coronavirus outbreak to have limited impact on India, says RBI Governor

Only a couple of sectors in India are likely to see some disruptions but alternatives are being explored to overcome those issues, he said

Slow economy, weak sentiment to continue weighing on auto sales: Fitch

Vehicle sales have been hampered by weak consumer sentiment and still-weak availability of financing following tighter liquidity at non-banking lenders since the middle of 2018

Budget 2020 was disappointing for lacking vision, says Ashima Goyal

However, the finance minister has achieved a "balancing act" through her moves, Goyal said