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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India may have to revise downwards 'potential' growth rate from 7-8%: ex-CEA -TCA Sharad Raghavan

India may have to revise downwards 'potential' growth rate from 7-8%: ex-CEA -TCA Sharad Raghavan

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published Published on Jul 19, 2019   modified Modified on Jul 19, 2019
-The Hindu

‘Today’s 4.5% is impressive as size of the economy now is five times of 1980 levels’

New Delhi:
India may have to revise downwards what is considered its “potential” rate of growth from 7-8% to bring expectations more in line with reality, former Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) Arvind Subramanian has argued in a paper.

This paper comes as a follow-up to the one Mr. Subramanian published last month, in which he had argued that India’s GDP growth in the 2011-17 period had been overestimated by 2.5 percentage points and that the actual growth rate was about 4.5%.

The original paper drew a lot of criticism over its methodology and assertions. The follow-up paper, the key highlights of which Mr. Subramanian had presented in a lecture earlier this month, is an attempt to address those criticisms. While the paper goes into some detail in addressing the statistical issues raised about the original, it also highlights certain cognitive arguments made against it and tries to show why those are unfounded. The first question raised, Mr. Subramanian said, was how India can, right now, grow at the same rate as it did in the pre-1980 Hindu rate of growth period, when the economic condition was clearly much worse.

“To begin with, today’s 4.5% translates into a per capita growth rate of about 3%,” he said. “In the pre-1980s era, the GDP growth rate was about 3-3.5% and the population growth rate was 2%, yielding a per capita growth rate of 1-1.5%. So, today’s 4.5% represents more than a doubling of the old “Hindu” per capita growth rate.”

Further, he said, the 4.5% growth rate was all the more impressive because the size of the economy now is five times of what it was in the 1980s. “Most impressively, a 4.5% growth rate is a notable achievement in the current, post-Global Financial Crisis world,” he added.

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The Hindu, 18 July, 2019, https://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/india-may-have-to-revise-downwards-potential-growth-rate-from-7-8-ex-cea/article28565137.ece?homepage=true


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