Page 28 - Economic Slowdown

After a bumpy ride in 2019, auto industry may see revival in H2FY21

Despite challenges, 2019 saw new brands coming in, mergers and partnerships as well as slew of launches

Easier said than done, but govt has to balance three sectors of economy

The most important policy issue today is how the government can stop spending taxpayers money on labour and financial markets so that the real or production sector can pick up.

A real Budget, please: This one has to confront severe resource restraints

In Budget 2020 speech, the FM should state how she intends to return to the 7% track, and the hard decisions she will take to adjust to the realities of a slowing economy, writes T N Ninan

Battered by slowdown, auto industry pins hopes on 2020 for turnaround

Industry body Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) expects things to turnaround in 2020-21

Story of India's economy in the past decade: After a high, a sharp slide

Here are the five people who best represent the story of the Indian economy in the 2010s

Fund raising via IPOs plunges 60% to Rs 12,362 cr as economy sputters

The outgoing year saw only 16 initial public offerings (IPOs) as against 24 in 2018, show the data collated by the premier database on the capital market Prime Database

Credit growth, NPA reduction to depend on pace of economic revival: RBI

Credit to the commercial sector shrank by Rs 52,971 crore during April-September this calendar, or in the first half of 2019-20, from an expansion of Rs 3.66 trillion in the same period a year ago

India needs to shift its economic model

Well beyond Modinomics or Modipolitics, India seems to be facing a structural challenge of its economic model whose evidences can be seen every day on the ground in the countryside

When Rahul Bajaj, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw broke deafening silence of India Inc

In visible signs of economic woes, the auto sector went through one of the longest sales slumps leading to nearly 3.5 lakh job losses.

India's Nov oil import growth fastest in seven months: Oil Ministry data

India, the world's third-biggest oil importer and consumer, has set an April 1, 2020 deadline to migrate to Euro VI-compliant fuels to cut its carbon emissions

IMF retains India's FY20 GDP growth rate forecast at 6.1%

IMF's projection is much higher than those by most agencies. RBI's latest projection pegged growth at 5 per cent, Standard & Poor's at 5.1 per cent, Moody's at 4.9 per cent and Fitch' at 4.6 per cent.

India in midst of significant economic slowdown, needs policy actions: IMF

"India is now in the midst of a significant economic slowdown," Salgado told reporters

Infra to banks: What will it take to fix Indian finance after the crisis

Can India in the 2020s try to reinvent its finance-construction model so that it works for everyone and not just for a few thousand financiers in Mumbai?

Has India's growth slowdown bottomed out? Animal spirits indicate so

Despite the green shoots, the economy is set for another quarter of sub-par growth, and still in need of support from the government and the central bank heading into 2020

Addressing the Great Slowdown

Here's a list of measures that will not help India overcome the slowdown

Lenders call for bids to rescue shadow bank Altico as crisis deepens

Alitco's bad loans spiked to 23.8% of its loan book in the July-September quarter, adding to concerns of recovery for the lenders

Letter to BS: Structural reforms hold the key to achieve economic goals

The demand for credit and the credit absorption capacity of the various segments are critical to boosting the supply of credit

Cases of Rs 89,000 cr in my ministry: Gadkari concerned over slowdown

Modi had said that discussions on achieving the vision of making India a $5 trillion economy did not come all of a sudden

Consumer durables report steady growth in 2019; slowdown a threat in 2020

The consumer durables sector, estimated to be around Rs 76,400 crore in FY'19, logged a growth rate of about 10 per cent, largely helped by long and harsh summer

A different phase

Ministerial statements at last week's meetings with business leaders indicate the government's new approach to industry