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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India's economy recovered strongly despite 3 COVID-19 waves, says U.S. Treasury report

India's economy recovered strongly despite 3 COVID-19 waves, says U.S. Treasury report

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published Published on Jun 11, 2022   modified Modified on Jun 12, 2022

-PTI/ The Hindu

“India’s acute second wave weighed heavily on growth through the middle of 2021, delaying its economic recovery”

The Indian economy has rebounded strongly despite three significant COVID-19 waves, the US Treasury has said in a report to Congress.

India's acute second wave weighed heavily on growth through the middle of 2021, delaying its economic recovery, the Treasury said in a semi-annual report.

"However, economic activity rebounded strongly in the second half of the year as India's vaccination rollout accelerated," the Treasury said on Friday, as it praised India's vaccination efforts.

As of the end of 2021, about 44% of India's population was fully vaccinated, it said.

After contracting seven per cent in 2020, the output returned to pre-pandemic levels by the second quarter of 2021, with full-year 2021 growth of 8%, it added.

Since the beginning of 2022, India faced a third major outbreak driven by the Omicron variant, but the number of deaths and broader economic fallout has been limited, it said.

The Indian government continued to provide fiscal support to the economy against the backdrop of the pandemic in 2021, it said. The authorities estimate that the overall fiscal deficit will reach 6.9% of GDP for the 2022 fiscal year, which is higher than deficits prior to the pandemic, it said.

According to the Treasury, the Reserve Bank of India kept its key policy rates unchanged at 4% since May 2020, but in January 2021 it began to gradually unwind the extraordinary liquidity measures designed to support growth during the early part of the coronavirus pandemic.

After recording a current account surplus of 1.3% of GDP in 2020, its first surplus since 2004, India returned to a current account deficit of 1.1% of GDP in 2021.

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PTI/ The Hindu, 11 June, 2022, https://www.thehindu.com/business/indias-economy-recovered-strongly-despite-3-covid-19-waves-says-us-treasury-report/article65516750.ece?homepage=true


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