-The Hindu Shell companies in MCA-21 submitting balance sheets regularly very much part of measurement, says former chief statistician The deficiencies found in the MCA-21 database of the corporate sector, where more than a third of the sample companies were either untraceable, out of coverage, or closed, will not have a major impact on the calculation of GDP and GVA, according to prominent statisticians closely associated with the subject. A recent report by...
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Statisticians dismiss concerns on growth numbers raised by NSSO study: Report
-MoneyControl.com A government official defended the calculations saying that since the tax collections match up with the database, it is not unusable. Prominent statisticians have dismissed fresh concerns on growth projections raised by a National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) study. An article in The Hindu quoted statisticians as saying the discrepancies pointed out by NSSO in the new Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA-21) database will have no major impact on growth. The government...
More »Data gaps in GDP calculation will be resolved: Govt
-Hindustan Times The NSSO report, findings of which were first published in Mint on Wednesday, found that 36% of the companies in the MCA-21 database maintained by the ministry of corporate affairs (MCA) could not be traced or were wrongly classified. New Delhi: The ministry of statistics and programme implementation (MoSPI) has downplayed the controversy around India’s gross domestic product (GDP) data after a National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) report raised serious...
More »New GDP series faces fresh questions after NSSO discovers holes -Pramit Bhattacharya
-Livemint.com * A third of the firms in MCA-21 database used to calculate GDP found dodgy * Results from the MCA-21 database survey were so disappointing that two reports based on it had to be junked NEW DELHI: A key database introduced in India’s new gross domestic product (GDP) series has now been found to be full of holes, raising fresh questions over the controversial and contested GDP numbers in Asia’s third-largest economy. A...
More »Despite hype, demonetization missed all goals -Sneha Alexander & Vishnu Padmanabhan
-Livemint.com Note ban was the biggest move by the Narendra Modi-led govt, but it was also its most underwhelming initiative, judged by the economic impact it had MUMBAI/ NEW DELHI: Mumbai: Of all the initiatives of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, none was as historic or dramatic as the decision to demonetize high-value currency notes. On 8 November 2016, in a televised address to the nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared...
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