To compensate for impact of over Rs 1.5 trn on account of measures announced to rein in inflation, including cut in fuel prices and Customs duty exemption: Somanathan
Manufacturing sector contracts in March quarter due to supply disruptions
V Anantha Nageswaran also ruled out recession hitting India, given its macroeconomic fundamentals
Says rise in crude, food, and fertiliser prices will weigh on household spending
Official data on the economy is expected to be released on May 31
Jobs in the US include 4.2 million teaching jobs, 1.8 million in personal care and service workers, and 900,000 jobs in healthcare.
Lender's chief economic advisor says projection for economy is clouded by significant uncertainties.
Government data indicates that less than 40 per cent of MSMEs borrow from the formal financial system
The tax reduction on petrol and diesel will lead to revenue loss of around Rs 1 lakh crore per year for the government
The impact of Saturday's excise duty cuts will be Rs 1 trillion for a year, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had said
Nirmala Sitharaman also expressed confidence that India will continue to achieve a high growth rate in the next financial year as well
In a Q&A, the president of the industry body dwells on how a cut in fuel duties will spur demand, and the impact of interest rate regime on India's FY23 GDP growth
Gross domestic product growth will be 7.6% for FY23 and 6.7% for FY24, 30 basis points lower than the previous estimates, the brokerage said in a note
"In 2019, prior to the pandemic, tourism contributed $3.5 trillion to global GDP. The precipitous drop during the pandemic is estimated to have cost up to 120 million jobs," the UNGA President noted
The share of incremental bank credit in incremental nominal GDP is likely to cross the 50 per cent mark in the current financial year, from a decade low of 27 per cent in FY2022, an SBI report said
Some observers say now is a good time to focus on different metrics than traditional measures of employment, prices and gross domestic product
Price stability is a necessary precondition for strong and sustainable growth, it adds
The divergence in real GDP growth and employment growth may continue into 2022-23, although it could be much smaller
The five largest spenders in 2021 were the United States, China, India, the United Kingdom and Russia, together accounting for 62% of expenditure," the Stockholm based said in a statement
The report has projected government expenditure at 18.4 per cent of the GDP in 2022 and 17.1 per cent in 2023 compared to 18.6 per cent in 2021