The rating agency’s decision is driven by Pakistan’s heightened external vulnerability risk and uncertainty around its ability to secure adequate additional external financing.
It also revised the growth forecast for FY2021 to 8.6% from 8.1%. Moody's attributed the reason behind better growth to the falling of coronavirus cases in India.
The investor service said India's credit profile is increasingly constrained by low growth and high debt burden, which have been exacerbated by the pandemic.
Chief Economic Advisor Krishnamurthy Subramanian statement came after Moody's downgraded India's rating and S&P retained it at the lowest investment grade.
Moody’s said credit flow to the economy already remains severely hampered because of severe liquidity constraints in the bank and non-bank financial sectors.
The decision to opt out of the big RCEP trade deal may eventually have been out of lack of choice, but it is silly to pretend it is a sign of bold leadership.
The conventional wisdom is that if a govt fails to improve the lot of the voters, it is punished. Kumar presided over an economic disaster for 20 years and was re-elected by a landslide.
Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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