Inflation, according to the GVA deflator, shows that the terms of trade have moved against agriculture, contributing to a slowdown in rural consumption
Growth will be sustained if consumption and investment continue to climb and government spending rises.
Encouraging as the data may be, it is superficial over the deep troughs of one year ago. Compared to the pre-pandemic levels, the growth catch-up is a bare 0.33 percent rise in correspondence
The index of eight core industries was up 7.5 percent in October 2021, but all it has done is dug itself out of the hole it had fallen into
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The GDP numbers of July-September quarter, though higher than the contraction of 7.4 percent recorded in the same period last year, is lower than than the 20.1 percent growth registered in Q1 FY22.
Four agencies have improved their FY21 GDP forecast for India in the past one week or so. These include Asian Development Bank, State Bank of India, Fitch, and India Ratings.
Kamath said that interest rates are truly moving down and there is no better tonic than low interest rates to drive demand. He also complimented the government on extension of ECLGS scheme.
One of the most crucial input data points used in GDP and GVA calculations is the Index of Industrial Production (IIP). IIP contracted by 10.4 per cent in July year-on-year, by 8 per cent in August and expanded by 0.2 per cent in September. So, in a quarter where IIP contracted during two months and barely rose in month, manufacturing GVA showed positive growth.
Farmers, benefiting from a bumper crop, are lapping up tractors while demand for personal vehicles, due to a lack of public transport and the need for safer travel options, has boosted sales of cars and motorcycles
Nomura has revised the GDP forecast for India to (-)8.2 percent from previously predicted (-)10.8 percent for FY21
With improvement in manufacturing, due to lifting of lockdown measures GDP contraction has slowed down significantly. Agriculture sector continued to perform well with growth at 3.4 percent.
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With the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases rising once again, the government’s representative - Chief Economic Advisor Krishnamurthy Subramanian - advised cautious optimism
It is a significant improvement in comparison to India’s GDP in the April-June quarter of the current fiscal which saw an unprecedented 23.9 percent drop during the early stages of nationwide lockdown induced by novel coronavirus pandemic. Sectors such as agriculture, fishing continues to grow in the second quarter of FY21.
Rahul Gandhi said this after India's GDP growth contracted by 7.5 percent in the July-September quarter. The GDP had contracted by 23.9 percent in the April-June quarter.
Experts feel the GDP print for FY21 could see a contraction of 6-7.5 percent, much lower than current expectations of 10-11 percent
The COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on the Indian economy has been brutal and debilitating. A disaggregated analysis of the Q2 GDP numbers, however, held out hope amid the piling rubble of ruin with many sectors including manufacturing, agriculture, and electricity reporting smart rebound
Government Final Consumption Expenditure fell to 10.9 percent in the July-September quarter from 13 percent a year-ago, while Private Final Consumption Expenditure fell to 54.2 percent from 56.5 percent a year ago
Manufacturing saw a growth of 0.6 percent in July-September of 2020-21, against a contraction of 0.6 percent in the same period a year ago, while construction saw a contraction of 8.6 percent, against a growth of 2.6 percent in the same period a year ago
In the April-June quarter of the current fiscal year, India's GDP had contracted by 23.9 percent
The Indian economy had contracted by 23.9 percent in the April-June quarter.
The September growth number has been revised to -0.1 percent versus -0.8 percent earlier.