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Early this year, the National Statistical Office (NSO) released the new series of the National Accounts Statistics (NAS). It shows that the manufacturing sector’s gross value added (GVA) is ₹38.6 lakh crore (₹38.6 trillion), constituting 14.7 per cent of GDP (gross domestic product) for the year 2023-24 at current prices. How reliable is the official…
The government has, in recent months, implemented several long-overdue but welcome upgrades to India’s statistical databases. Wide-ranging, they cover the way the country measures Gross Domestic Product (GDP), industrial production, and price changes at the retail, wholesale, and producer levels. These updates have not only made India’s key economic statistics more representative of reality, but…
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Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das speaks at the Global Fintech Fest (GFF) 2024, in Mumbai on Friday. | Photo Credit: ANI The slowing of India’s economic growth to a 15-month low of 6.7% in the April-June quarter was due to “lower” government spending in the wake of the enforcement of the model…
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Government final consumption expenditure tanked 0.2% in Q1, while public capital expenditure spends that include projects financed by the Centre, States and central public sector firms, were 33.3% lower than a year ago. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Signalling a moderation in the economy’s growth momentum, India’s real GDP rose 6.7% in the April to…
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Arvind Virmani, NITI Ayog member. File | Photo Credit: Special arrangement “The Indian economy will grow around 7% in the current fiscal year and is on track to maintain a similar growth rate for several years,” NITI Aayog member Arvind Virmani said on July 12. Mr. Virmani said there are new challenges facing the country…
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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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Economists feel a prolonged conflict in West Asia could push crude oil prices beyond India’s comfort zone. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The story so far: The Indian economy, measured in terms of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as well as Gross Value-Added (GVA), grew 7.8% between April and June (first quarter or Q1) this…
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T.V. Somanathan, Finance Secretary. File. | Photo Credit: KAMAL NARANG The government is expected to constitute the 16th Finance Commission by end of November, Finance Secretary T V Somanathan said. Finance Commission is a constitutional body that gives suggestions on Centre-State financial relations. It suggests, among other things, the ratio in which tax is to…
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