-TheWire.in A claim of an 8.4% real GDP growth rate has little relevance even as rural India battles plummeting wage levels, depleted incomes and widespread unemployment. With the release of the GDP figures for the quarter ending September, the government machinery has been in full swing advancing the narrative that economic growth is indeed back on track. However, sorely missing from these narratives is the inconvenient factoid on the currently dismal state of...
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What GDP numbers didn’t tell -Surajit Das
-TelanganaToday.in Pvt consumption and investment (90% of GDP) have shrunk 35% and revised numbers could present a scarier picture On 31st August, the National Statistical Office (NSO) came out with the provisional estimate of the GDP. According to this, the GDP shrunk by 23.9% during April, May and June as compared with the first quarter of the last financial year (2019-20). Aggregate private final consumption expenditure contracted 26.7% and investment (including gross...
More »Merchandise exports affected by global slowdown but not export of services
Is it the case that the global economic downturn instead of shrinking domestic demand has affected our economy more? If the aforesaid statement is true, then ideally the trade related data should indicate improvement in our imports and deceleration in the country's exports. However, that is not the case and we get a mixed picture. A press release by the Ministry of Commerce & Industry dated 13th September, 2019 shows...
More »GDP shocker: India's position slips among world's fastest growing economies -Dipu Rai
-IndiaToday.in Data shows that consumption and investment demand are declining. private final consumption expenditure grew by only 3.1 per cent (a 4.5-year low), while fixed capital formation grew by four per cent, 0.4 per cent less than the last quarter of the financial year 2019. Gross Domestic Product or GDP is a tool to measure and compare how good or bad countries are doing economically. Recent data of the first quarter of...
More »What is behind the GDP growth falling to 5% -Radhika Merwin
-The Hindu Business Line Apart from slowdown in manufacturing and construction, the steep decline in consumption is a big cause for worry Even as the Centre’s big bank mergers detracted the attention briefly from the much-awaited GDP growth numbers for the April-June quarter, the sharp slowdown drew the market’s attention back to the immediate issue at hand. The Central Statics Office (CSO) revealing that the real GDP growth in Q1 of the...
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