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India will struggle to achieve 5% GDP growth in 2020: Steve Hanke

India, which till recently was hailed as the world's fastest-growing major economy, has seen growth rate decline to a six-year low of 4.5 per cent in the September quarter of 2019-20

IMF raises questions over methodology to calculate GDP growth in India

IMF also said there were weaknesses in the deflation method used to derive value added. Deflators are used to convert GDP at current prices to constant prices

Reviving economic growth

The IMF has some useful suggestions

Budget 2020: Govt likely to assume a growth rate of 6-6.5% in real GDP

It is also likely to assume a deflator of around 4 per cent. That could take the nominal GDP outlook for FY21 to around 10 per cent

How India's economy came back down to earth in just a year's time

India may yet reclaim its mantle as the next big thing, albeit a toned-down and more durable version

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

Fitch cuts India's GDP growth to 4.6% as credit crunch cripples economy

The rating agency sees moderate fiscal slippage, retains sovereign rating and outlook

Top headlines: M&M's board rejig, Fitch lowers India GDP growth, and more

In a statement, the firm said Pawan Kumar Goenka has been re-appointed the managing director with additional responsibilities of CEO for a year

Economy needs real reforms push

Moves like direct tax reform and actual divestment will send out the right signals

Moody's cuts India's 2019 GDP growth forecast to 5.6% amid employment woes

It expects economic growth to pick up in 2020 and 2021 to 6.6% and 6.7% respectively

Economy resilient, no cause for apprehension on decline in GDP: Govt

Continuous liberalisation has led to an increase in inflows of foreign direct investment into the country.

Govt exploring new method for calculating GDP with changing weights

The weights assigned to various products and activities will keep updating but the base year will remain the same

Revival hopes help markets continue their winning run, absorb GDP shocker

While the GDP data is released with a two-month lag, markets always try to factor in future expectations

ADB trims India's FY20 growth forecast to 5.1%, cites consumption slowdown

ADB said growth should pick up to 6.5 per cent in the next fiscal year with supportive policies

Simplify I-T structure

That's the way to go for improving tax base, compliance

Could consumption really have fallen?

The leaked NSS consumption numbers have provoked a debate. While arguments by various sides are not really convincing there are some broad lessons

'Unprecedented', says Chidambaram on RBI's cut in FY20 GDP forecast to 5%

The RBI on Thursday kept repo rate unchanged at the current 5.15% level but revised GDP growth projection for the current financial year 2019-20 to 5%

Key takeaways from RBI's monetary policy meet

GDP growth forecast for FY20 has been revised downwards from 6.1 per cent in the October policy to 5 per cent

To revive economic growth, Nirmala Sitharaman should sidestep this trap

The key to boosting growth lies in boosting investments, not consumption

Dream targets: Modi govt needs to show greater purpose to meet macro goals

Targets like $5-trn GDP and 100% export growth by 2025, besides doubling of farm income and increasing the share of manufacturing in GDP to 25% by 2022, might prove a tall order, writes T N Ninan