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Statsguru: Charting key factors, challenges behind India's credit ratings

Moody's Investors Service changed its outlook from negative to stable on October 5

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Moody’s noted that India’s general government debt has increased from about 74 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2019 to 89 per cent in 2020.

Sachin P Mampatta
Two out of the three major rating agencies have now adopted a stable outlook on India’s sovereign ratings. Moody’s Investors Service changed its outlook from negative to stable on October 5. The rating is still at the lowest invest­ment grade, only a notch above “junk”. The highest was in 1988 at A2, or four grades above than it is today. There were sharp declines around the foreign exchange crisis that led to libe­ralisation in the early 1990s (chart 1).
 
India had only enough reserves to cover three weeks of imports in December 1990. Import cover has now risen to