The Asian Development Bank on Wednesday revised down India's economic growth forecast for the current fiscal to 10 per cent, from 11 per cent predicted earlier
India is expected to post strong economic growth in the coming quarters, even as inflation, led by food prices, is likely to remain elevated, S&P Global Ratings said on Wednesday. The economy is expected to clock 9.5 per cent growth in the current fiscal year, followed by 7 per cent expansion in the next year, it said, adding high nominal GDP growth would be important for ensuring fiscal consolidation going forward. "Given India's weak fiscal settings and high stock of debt around 90 per cent of GDP, the nominal GDP growth is going to be very important to prevent any further erosion of fiscal settings in the country and to enable some degree of fiscal consolidation going forward," S&P Global Ratings Director (Sovereign) Andrew Wood said. He said the fiscal deficit would remain elevated over the next two years but debt/GDP ratio is expected to stabilise or flatten out. Wood further said India's external position has strengthened in the context of the pandemic and India has been
Economic recovery is taking place: you can argue over its pace but denying it altogether is being wilfully blind.
'The decline and the subsequent recovery was not reflecting anything about the fundamentals of the economy. It is only reflecting the economic restrictions that were placed or removed', said CEA
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India's growth rebound in the first quarter of this fiscal will be the foundation of sustained expansion in successive quarters, Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar said on Tuesday
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Bharti Airtel (up 6.7 per cent) was the biggest gainer on the Sensex today, followed by Bajaj Finance, Bajaj Finserv, Asian Paints, TCS, Titan, and Tech Mahindra
The intensity of the second wave of Coronavirus (Covid-19) and the subsequent lockdowns across almost all states disrupted the contact intensive services again in Q1
Reuters poll of 41 economists confirmed gross home product rose 20.0% in the three-month interval, in contrast with a record contraction of 24.4% in the identical quarter a year earlier
The country's gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to grow at around 18.5 per cent with an upward bias in the first quarter of the current financial year, according to SBI research report Ecowrap
In June, the rating agency had said that the GDP would grow by 9.6 per cent if the country is able to vaccinate its entire adult population by December 31 this year
The IIP was up 45 per cent in the first quarter due to the 134.63 per cent rise in April owing to a low base
The temporary supply shocks that have led to higher inflation has been kept aside by the MPC while focusing on growth
Nobel laureate economist Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee on Thursday apprehended that the impending third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic might adversely impact the GDP
The country's gross domestic product (GDP) growth is likely to be 8.8 to 9 per cent in the current financial year, driven by agriculture and industry sectors, Care Ratings said in a report.
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This is expected to affect GDP growth rate during April-June quarter
Experts say surge in gold imports contributed to widening of CAD in Q4FY21, in spite of spike in exports