“This is a downward revision from our 8.5% forecast in March as inflationary impacts of global commodity price shock are dampening some of the positive growth momentum,” the ratings agency said.
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.
It’s virtually written in the stars that private banks will continue to grab a bigger share than public banks. Two or three large, better-run govt banks should suffice.
The reconstituted Monetary Policy Committee, which met from 7 to 9 October, had decided to keep the benchmark lending rates unchanged in view of the hardening of retail inflation.
With an 8.8% growth rate in 2021, India will regain the position of the fastest growing emerging economy, surpassing China's projected growth rate of 8.2%, the IMF report said.
Double-digit growth seems optimistic. Modi govt needs to more than double its expenditure to compensate for the losses and avert GDP decline. It's fanciful at best.
What is Shiv Sena’s ideology? We might say it’s been a convenient mix of extreme ethnic chauvinism & unforgiving Hindutva. Within the second, the party retained space to manoeuvre.