-The Telegraph This is the first upgrade of India’s growth forecast by any international agency amid global turmoil India’s economy is expected to grow 6.9 per cent in the current fiscal year, the World Bank said in a report on Tuesday, citing tightening monetary policy and high commodity prices as factors impacting the country’s growth. The Bank had trimmed its growth forecast for India to 6.5 per cent in early October from a...
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Explained: Why India’s economic growth slowed in the July-September quarter -Nachiket Deuskar
-Scroll.in The fading away of the base effect and a contraction in the manufacturing sector led to the falling numbers. India’s gross domestic product grew by 6.3% in the July-September quarter of financial year 2022-’23, the Union Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation said on Wednesday. This was a sharp decrease from the 13.5% growth in the previous April-June quarter. In the corresponding July-September quarter of financial year 2021-’22, the growth rate was...
More »How Has the Indian Economy Done Vis-à-vis Other Nations Over the Past 30 Years? -Deepanshu Mohan, Aniruddh Bhaskaran, Hemang Sharma, Soumya Marri and Malhaar Kasodekar
-TheWire.in A detailed analysis of India’s growth trajectory, comparing its growth trends with other industrially developed economies across sectors and with other like-minded group of nations. This article, extrapolating our key findings from a recent Centre for New Economics Studies (CNES) research analysis, involves a detailed analysis of India’s growth trajectory over the last three decades comparing its growth trends with other industrially developed economies across sectors like manufacturing, services, banking, etc.,...
More »The FM’s call for industrial investment -K Bharat Kumar
-The Hindu Why did the Union Finance Minister urge industry giants to invest in manufacturing? Is private sector financing at an all-time low? Has government intervention to boost and spend aggressively on infrastructure come at an opportune time? The story so far: Last month, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman asked captains of industry what was holding them back from investing in manufacturing. She likened industry to Lord Hanuman from the Ramayana by stating...
More »Why India Inc. is not taking a Hanuman leap -Pulapre Balakrishnan
-The Hindu The one lever that the government could have pulled as it watched private investment decline was to step up public investment In a meeting held with the country’s corporate leaders on September 15, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman drew attention to an important aspect of the economy today. She rightly flagged concerns about sluggish corporate investment, despite the government’s business-friendly stance, including a reduction in the corporate tax. The reduction, effected...
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