-Livemint.com Clearly, there is much more to GDP data than aggregate estimates. The National Statistical Office (NSO) released estimates of gross domestic product (GDP) for the second quarter of this fiscal year on 30 November. Based on these, India’s GDP in the July-September quarter increased by 6.3% compared to last year, whereas the gross value added (gva) during the same period increased by 5.6%; the manufacturing sector witnessed a contraction of 4.3%....
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Low Incomes Haunt India’s Growth -Subodh Varma
-Newsclick.in Three transformative steps could dramatically change this dire situation – provided Modi Govt. has the will to take them. Wage growth of households has declined from 8.2% in 2012-2016 to 5.7% in 2017-2021, according to a fresh study by a ratings agency. It will actually be even lower – around 1% - if inflation is taken into account. This slowing down of wage growth has happened in both rural and urban...
More »Realistic analysis shows that the Indian economy has simply taken little steps in Q1 instead of a quantum leap
There is euphoria abound about India's growth performance during the first quarter of the current fiscal. As compared to the corresponding period last year, the year-on-year (y-o-y) GDP growth in the first quarter (Q1) of 2022-23 is down. However, one should take into account the fact that the high growth performance of the real GDP in Q1 of 2021-22 was due to the low base in the corresponding period of...
More »The story behind the big GDP-gva gap -Pragya Srivastava
-Livemint.com Yet again, two measures of India’s economy— ‘gross value added’ and ‘gross domestic product’—have grown at widely different paces. While change in GDP significantly lagged the change in gva in FY21, the story was opposite in FY22, says data released Tuesday. Mint explains: What is the difference between gva & GDP? Gross value added (gva) adds up the value of all goods and services produced in an economy after deducting the input...
More »Burden of farm expense has increasingly passed from Centre to states -Abhinav Surya
-TheFederal.com Of the total public expenditure in agriculture, the Centre’s share fell from 50% to 37% between FY11 and FY20, while the states’ increased from 50% to 63% Fiscal federalism and Centre-state financial relations have always been a hotly discussed topic, with sharper debates arising in recent times. The total burden of public expenditure on the Central exchequer as a share of gross domestic project (GDP) has declined over the past decade,...
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