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United Nations: The World Bank projects India’s economy to grow by 6.7 per cent in the next fiscal year starting in April, slightly higher than in the current fiscal year, and continuing to top the growth tally. The Word Bank’s Global Economic Prospects released on Thursday estimated the current fiscal year’s growth rate at 6.5…
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Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) new Governor Sanjay Malhotra. | Photo Credit: PTI Facing criticism from the government over the central bank prioritising inflation over growth, the new RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra on Monday (December 30, 2024) said that prospects of the Indian economy are expected to improve on the back of high consumer and…
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Nirmala Sitharaman was speaking on the sidelines of the World Bank in Washington on Wednesday. Washington: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that India wants to enhance its influence in the world as one in every six persons is Indian and the world cannot ignore India’s economy. While participating in a panel discussion on the…
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Dr. Nicholas Sitko | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Senior Economist of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, Nicholas Sitko, said India has to increase its own fertiliser production capacity as the situation in Ukraine and West Asia is likely to remain unstable. Dr. Sitko, who was in New Delhi in connection…
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The 6.9% economic growth projections for India in the mid-year update is an upward revision from the 6.2% GDP forecast made by the U.N. in January. | Photo Credit: B. Jothi Ramalingam The United Nations has revised upwards India’s growth projections for 2024, with the country’s economy now forecast to expand by close to 7%…
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The Manufacturing sector Flash PMI stood at 59.1 in April, unchanged from March’s final reading for the index. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Combined output from India’s manufacturing and services sectors may have grown at the fastest pace in almost 14 years this month, with the services activity rising to a three-month high, as per the…
RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das presented a memento to Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a ceremony to mark 90 years of the Reserve Bank of India in Mumbai on April 1, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 1 said India needs to become economically self-reliant in the next ten years so…
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A worker cuts metal inside a workshop manufacturing metal pipes in Mumbai, India August 11, 2017. REUTERS/Shailesh Andrade | Photo Credit: SHAILESH ANDRADE India can sustain 8% annual GDP growth and the conducive macroeconomic configuration may become a launching pad for a step-up in the country’s growth trajectory, said an article on the ‘State of…
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addresses an audience at the Shrimati Indira Gandhi College in Tiruchirappalli on March 16, 2024. | Photo Credit: ANI Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on March 16 said India needs economic freedom to achieve developed nation status by 2047 and assured that the country would move to the third spot…
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Unfortunately, ‘wise’ , ‘efficient’ and ‘government expenditure’ don’t usually feature in the same sentence. | Getty Images | Photo Credit: Getty Images “The Indian economy is expected to grow at an average rate of 6.7% per annum until the end of the decade,” CRISIL said in its latest report. The economy will grow at this…
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