India's economy, estimated to contract by 6.9 per cent in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, is forecast to record a "stronger recovery" in 2021 and grow by 5 per cent, according to a UN report
Steps taken by the government to deal with Covid-19 pandemic are resulting in 'V-shaped' economic recovery, Thakur said
India's GDP growth to be at 11 per cent in fiscal 2022, says report predicting two-phase economic recovery
But their Budget numbers are inclined to be overstated due to substantial revisions in revenues and grants shared by the Centre
The revised method of GDP did not only change the base year, but also the way it is computed.
GDP is implicitly projected by NSO to slip back into contraction of 1.1% in Q4FY21. This appears to be an outcome of the back-ended release in the Govt's subsidies that is on the anvil in Q4
Congress'' chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said the third quarter GDP data proves yet again that fault lines in the Indian economy are more visible than ever before
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India will become one of the few major economies to post growth in the last quarter of 2020, with any improvement in the economy's performance inversely tied to a drop in Covid-19 infections
Indian affiliate Icra expects considerable rebound in economic growth in FY22 on the back of higher central govt spending, pick-up in consumption
Besides India, HSBC has cut 2021 CPI inflation forecasts for Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. In Korea and Malaysia, the upward revisions were marginal
GDP contraction of 7.7% is much smaller than expected, DEA says
The feat comes a day after the Sensex closed above the coveted 50,000-mark. In dollar terms, the market cap is $2.75 trillion-seventh highest globally
Once the pandemic retreats, India might end up with a debt-to-GDP ratio north of 90 per cent, compared to the low seventies at present
The wider deficits and more gradual pace of consolidation will lift India's government debt
The earnings per share (EPS) for Nifty companies was Rs 416 in FY17.
A so-called Covid cess shouldn't be announced because the economy is still normalising after a strict and vast lockdown, Sonal Varma, an economist at Nomura Holdings, said on Thursday
While Centre-state cooperation on lockdown and vaccine roll-out are commendable, the fractious GST council meet and states not allowing in CBI could prove to be a spanner
Provisional data shows that inflation impact in 2020-21 is expected to be about 3.9%, down from 7.4% in 2019-20
While the informal sector has been affected more severely than the formal, it is also resilient and can revive quickly, say experts