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True fiscal responsibility -Pulapre Balakrishnan

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published Published on Dec 7, 2020   modified Modified on Dec 7, 2020

-The Hindu

Slashing public expenditure amid a recession is a recipe for serious economic disaster

The National Statistical Office (NSO) recently announced estimates of economic activity in the second quarter of the current financial year. As most of the first quarter coincided with the lockdown announced by the Central government, it would only have been expected that output would be depressed as production could not have taken place. And this is what happened. The GDP contracted by 23.9% in that quarter (compared to the same quarter of the previous year). However, there was no particular reason for assuming that we would see a contraction in the second quarter as well, but that is what we now find. Though the contraction has been less than both what it was in the previous quarter and what several sources had forecast, at 7.5%, it is still significant. Thus far, we have not had the V-shaped recovery predicted by the government’s economists.

To have assumed a V-shaped recovery following the lifting of the Centre’s lockdown would not have been wrong if output were determined entirely from the supply side under normal circumstances. Following this reasoning, output would remain depressed so long as the lockdown prevented production from taking place, but would spring back once these restrictions are removed. However, after they are lifted, we would return to a world in which output is determined by demand. This now introduces the possibility that output may not spring back, as investment may have actually declined post the lockdown. It would happen if depressed output causes private investors to hold their plans for the future and contract expenditure. A quarter is, after all, a very short period of time, and impulses in one may take effect only in the next.

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The Hindu, 7 December, 2020, https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/true-fiscal-responsibility/article33265567.ece?homepage=true


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