-The Telegraph Challenges to economic recovery in India and the world remain The International Monetary Fund revealed its outlook for the world economy last week. A year and a half after the pandemic, global recovery remained reassuringly strong: the world economy is expected to grow a tad slower (10 basis points) this year at 5.9 per cent and at an unchanged pace — 4.9 per cent — next year. But the exit...
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What the Q1 GDP numbers say -C Rangarajan and DK Srivastava
-The Hindu With improved revenues, government must increase expenditures to push consumption and investment India’s GDP data for Q1 of 2021-22 was released by the National Statistical Office (NSO) on August 31, 2021. Real GDP growth at 20.1% in Q1 of 2021-22 is largely because of the contraction of 24.4% in the corresponding quarter of the first COVID-19 year, that is, 2020-21. Even with this high growth, the magnitude of real GDP...
More »What Impacts Child Malnutrition in India and Why We Need to Be Aware of These Factors -Payal Seth and Palakh Jain
-TheWire.in India loses 4% of its GDP annually due to malnourishment and hence, the objective of economic development cannot be met without addressing the issue of child malnutrition. India has achieved remarkable levels of economic growth, and yet, despite all the progress, it continues to host the highest number of malnourished children in the world. Child malnutrition is classified as ‘undernutrition’ (inadequate consumption of calories) and ‘overnutrition’ (excess consumption of calories). Of these,...
More »Even with 20.1% GDP growth, the economy has been set back by three years -Vivek Kaul
-Livemint.com This is the highest GDP growth that India has seen since the country started reporting quarterly GDP data for the quarter ended June 1996 The gross domestic product (GDP) growth for the period April to June 2021 came in at a record 20.1%. GDP is the measure of the economic size of a country during a particular period. This is the highest growth that India has seen since the country started reporting...
More »Q1 GDP: Trade, hotel and transport segment clocks 34.3% growth in Q1 -Shreeja Singh
-Moneycontrol.com The sector entered the positive terrain after declining for four quarters in 2020-21. Trade, hotel, transport, communication and services related to broadcasting reported a growth in the first quarter of FY22 as per the data released by National Statistical Office (NSO). Trade, hotel, transport, communication & services related to broadcasting clocked a growth of 34.3 percent in the April-June quarter. Please click here to read more. Kindly click here to access the press note...
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