Government must now step up expenditure to boost demand for private investment and consumption, said RBI
The consumption spurt will be driven by urbanisation, higher disposable incomes, and nuclear families
Factors that will increase pressure to ration healthcare, signs of green shoots in consumer spending, lowest single-day death toll so far-news relevant to India's fight against Covid-19
Warns about the possibility of another, more devastating Covid wave, strikes an optimistic chord on declining infections
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, consumption will continue to grow at a steady pace, the consultancy says, tripling in size in 10 years
The CPI-IW hasn't been revised since 2001 - an exercise which should usually take place every five years
While India e-commerce is booming, retail sector is steadily recovering post 'unlock' to reach over 80% of pre-Covid levels of about $780 bn in 2020, according to RedSeer
With the Covid-19 pandemic shattering the country's economy, resulting in mass layoffs and salary cuts, the cola major is now facing faltering sales and an overall slowdown in consumption
"Retrenchment in activity that is unprecedented in history," says the annual report released by the central bank
Japanese media reported the latest drop was the worst since World War II
'India accounts for a mere $3 trillion of economic activity in a world with nearly $80 trillion of activity'
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Rising farm income to aid firms having a bigger share of revenues from the rural sector
Congress wants lockdown lifted across country on May 18, save hotspots; Gandhi urges Centre to make citizens 'psychologically' prepared to for lockdown exit
China will reduce import tariffs on consumer goods and encourage regions that have car plate quota restrictions to increase quota
It said a rate cut is unlikely to work in isolation as bank transmission of RBI's rate cut has been slow
The first of a two-part series looks at how people in the poll-bound state of Bihar are cutting back on consumption expenditure
The Good Day biscuit maker is hoping to take the croissant offers, which it is currently fine-tuning, pan-Indian by May-June this year and salted snacks in the next six months
In collaborative systems, the role of the users may switch between ''consumers'' and ''producers''
The key to boosting growth lies in boosting investments, not consumption