Topic: GDP

Government capital spending increased more than 40% during the quarter as it stepped up expenditure on roads to railways, according to official data on Wednesday.

India's govt sector is large compared to East Asia. Yet, we have poor-quality public services. It might be prudent to take a look at what they actually deliver and at what cost.India's govt sector is large compared to East Asia. Yet, we have poor-quality public services. It might be prudent to take a look at what they actually deliver and at what cost.

A double-digit headline GDP growth or being crowned the world’s fastest-growing economy means very little, unless it also yields robust income growth for families.

While the Indian economy continues to do better than others, it is not located on some other planet and is bound to be affected by the global headwinds.

Q1 GDP numbers show uneven recovery and pace of growth is likely to moderate due to global headwinds and mixed monsoon.

Report by the Asia Society Policy Institute also found that decarbonisation will entail trade-offs such as reduction in household consumption by 2060.

When one looks to the future, the question is whether Western powers want to save a country still recognisably Ukraine, or if they seek to destroy Russian threat once & for all.

The government has revised its GDP growth estimate for 2021-22 to 8.7 per cent on account of economic disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and spike in inflation.

The government in the revised estimates in the Budget for 2022-23 forecast a higher fiscal deficit of 6.9% of the GDP for the fiscal ended in March.

For a big democracy like India, it would need greater efforts to drive the nation on the road of perfection, writes Seshank Mavalapalli