The Modi government is busy publicising its achievements in its first 100 days, and it does have some to talk about. However, these 100 days have also been India’s worst in years for the economy. It cannot be talked up or just tweaked. It needs to take precedence over politics.
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For one, market cap has fallen by 1,250,000,000,000. That is a huge negative wealth shock to households already dipping into savings to keep irreducible consumption aloft. The automobile industry – one half of manufacturing – looks like it has seen a ghost. Jobs are being lost on an industrial scale. Growth could be as low as 2 – 3 %. To say that millennials now use Ola and Uber is to reduce the task of mentorship of the economy to a debate at St Stephen’s. A new economic team is imperative. Without the economy being restored to first health and then higher growth, political capital could melt like an ice cream cone.
Possibly 12,500,000,000,000, but what is an extra zero between friends …