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Positive surprise: Q1 GDP growth speeds up, but policy concerns remain

Some of the additional impetus to growth came from agriculture, but this should not be seen as a sign that rural distress is over

With 8.2% strong GDP growth, India Inc sees animal spirits coming back

Strong GDP growth changes mood, though some say kickstarting investment cycle still a work in progress

Macro-economic instability was highest under UPA govt: Surjit Bhalla

New GDP data does not change reality that 'macro-economic instability' was highest under the previous UPA government period, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) member Surjit Bhalla said today. According to the back series data prepared by the by the Committee on Real Sector Statistics, constituted by the National Statistical Commission, Indian economy clocked a 10.08 per cent growth rate in 2006-07 under the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the highest since liberalisation of the economy in 1991. "Rumour going around that UPA had higher growth; therefore no policy paralysis; "new" GDP data does not change reality that macro-economic INSTABILITY was highest under UPA-highest inflation ever, highest center + state fiscal deficits, highest corruption & highest policy paralysis," Bhalla said in a tweet. The report has been released on the website of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MOSPI). The report compares growth rates between old ..

GDP grows 7.7% in Q4; India retains world's fastest growing economy tag

At 7.7%, it is a seven-quarter high; full-year growth falls to 6.7%

Govt keeps FY19 GDP growth estimate unchanged at 7.5%, Goyal lauds Modi

Buoyed by India retaining its fastest growing economy tag, the government today said it is keeping its forecast of GDP growth of 7.5 per cent for fiscal year 2018-19 unchanged. Finance Minister Piyush Goyal said the 7.7 per cent GDP growth in the fourth quarter of 2017-18 showed the economy was on right track for higher growth in the future. The growth surpassed China's 6.8 per cent expansion in the January-March period. "GDP growth has been increasing continuously every quarter with growth of 7.7% in Q4 of 2017-18. Shows that the economy is on the right track & set for even higher growth in the future. This is the #SahiVikas under leadership of PM," Goyal tweeted. Speaking to reporters soon after GDP data for Q4 and 2017-18 was released, Economic Affairs Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg said the government is not cutting its FY19 growth forecast of 7.5 per cent. In 2017-18, the economy had grown by 6.7 per cent. He said he did not see any co-relation between oil prices and GDP ...

What the Q4-FY18 GDP numbers tell us?

The positive surprise has been the high growth in agriculture of 4.5%

India retains tag of fastest growing economy; GDP rises 7.7% in Jan-Mar

For the 2017/18 full fiscal year ended in March, growth came in at 6.7 per cent

March quarter was good for Indian economy but will road ahead be bumpy?

That overall steady - but strong - view was supported by expectations for manufacturing activity to have slowed only slightly in May

India needs to diagnose what's wrong with its GDP measurement system

GDP data is a critical input; we need a more capable system of measurement

Dispelling growth delusions

Trends in the ingredients of the 'noughties' growth surge do not augur well for sustained 8 per cent plus growth in the future

Ind-Ra revises up growth forecast to 7.4% for FY19 on strong agri growth

Agriculture, industry to boost growth

India needs 8% growth for 30 years to join middle-income group: World Bank

Junaid Ahmad, country director of the World Bank, said the bank planned to lend $20 billion to $25 billion to India in the next five years

Just as the GDP numbers, Modi govt too performing short of its potential?

The biggest engine of growth continues to be government spending, which is supposed to grow by almost 11 percent in real terms this year

GDP growth on the right path after third quarter results

The government once again is to take the lead with 10.1% growth

The economy turns around as third-quarter GDP growth lifts future prospects

Looking at sectoral growth rates, Q3 benefited from manufacturing growing by 8.1% and agriculture by 4.1%

Q3FY18 GDP growth at 7.2% is not great but isn't bad either: Here's why

Private consumption growth has returned to the pre-demonetisation levels but anecdotal evidence suggests otherwise

India's Q3FY18 GDP growth rises to five-quarter high of 7.2%

The economy is expected to grow at 6.6% in the current fiscal ending March 31, as per the second advanced estimates of the CSO, compared to 7.1% in 2016-17

India has potential to achieve a growth rate of more than 7-8%: FM Jaitley

India has demonstrated in the last few years that it has, even in a global environment of adversity, a potential to self correct itself, Jaitley said

Green shoots? At 6.9%, Q3 likely to see best GDP growth rate in FY18: Poll

What has also weighed on the economy is exports, which took a hit last year from an appreciating rupee, which strengthened 6.5% against the dollar in 2017

FY17 GDP growth retained at 7.1% and GVA growth revised sharply to 7.1%

Gross fixed capital formation (GFCF) growth was revised to 10.1 per cent in FY17, the highest in this series, from the previously anaemic 2.4 per cent