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The fall in household savings has been at the heart of recent debates in India. The decline in household savings is brought about by a drastic reduction in net financial savings as the household net financial savings to GDP ratio attained a four-decade low. Figure 1 shows the broad trend in household savings, physical savings…
Moody’s corporate headquarters in New York. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Moody’s Analytics on April 12 projected India’s economy to expand 6.1% in 2024, lower than 7.7% growth clocked in 2023. It said output in India remains 4% lower than it would have been without the COVID pandemic and its various aftershocks — from supply…
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S&P said it forecast rate cuts of up to 75 basis points in India this fiscal. Photo: www.freepik.com S&P Global Ratings on March 26 raised India’s growth forecast for the next financial year to 6.8%, but flagged restrictive interest rates as a dampener for economic growth. The Indian economy is estimated to have clocked a…
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Representational image of cargo ships at a harbour. Carbon tax on shipping will cut developing countries’ GDP by 0.13% | Photo Credit: Reuters The European Union, Canada, Japan and climate-vulnerable Pacific Island states are among 47 countries rallying support for a charge on the international shipping sector’s greenhouse gas emissions, documents reviewed by Reuters showed….
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South Sudan has severely limited economic growth and development. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has released a report highlighting the world’s poorest countries based on GDP per capita adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP). While GDP is a measure of a country’s total economic output, PPP takes into account the cost of living, providing a…
As per the latest All India Household Consumption Expenditure Survey, the average monthly per capita consumption expenditure in Indian households rose by 33.5% since 2011-12 in urban households to ₹3,510, with rural India’s MPCE seeing a 40.42% increase over the same period to hit ₹2,008. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu For the first time…
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Watch | P. Chidambaram: ‘When we come to power GST will be reformed; States will be empowered’ Former Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram says no structural reforms have been carried out in the country since 2014. He says there is no credibility to the government’s numbers and the claim of a V-shaped economic recovery after…
Sanjay Malhotra, Revenue Secretary | Photo Credit: The Hindu India’s tax-to-GDP ratio is expected to hit a record high of 11.7% of GDP in 2024-25, led by an uptick in the more ‘equitable’ direct taxes, and the government will continue to simplify and rationalise the tax regime to reduce disputes, litigation and intrusive means of…
At end-June 2023, long-term debt (with original maturity of above one year) was placed at $505.5 billion. File | Photo Credit: K. Pichumani India’s external debt at end-June 2023 was placed at $629.1 billion, recording an increase of $4.7 billion over its level at end-March 2023 according to data released by the Reserve Bank of…
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The year-ago period, April-June quarter of 2022-23, saw a 13.1 per cent growth. (File) New Delhi: The Indian economy grew 7.8 per cent in the April-June quarter, driven by high private consumption and investment, the fastest in a year that saw a sharp rise in inflation. It marks a rise from a 6.1 per cent…
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