FINANCE Minister Fayval Williams on Tuesday responded to concerns raised by the Independent Fiscal Commission about the state ...
After more than a decade of questions and debates, India is set to finally get an updated gauge of its GDP, with the Ministry ...
The sharp uptick was largely due to the impact of GDP deflators, which remained unusually soft, particularly in the primary and secondary sectors ...
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Reliable macroeconomic statistics are fundamental to economic governance. Last year, the IMF, even while revising India’s GDP growth projections upwards, assigned a “C” rating to our National Accounts ...
China’s government has now set its growth target for 2026 at 4.5% to 5%. With China’s GDP deflator still in negative ...
With the shift to a new base year, economists are watching closely to see whether India’s GDP growth will continue to hover ...
India’s GDP growth between 2012 and 2023 may have been overstated, with actual expansion closer to 4–4.5% a year than the official estimate of about 6%, says a working paper by Abhishek Anand, Josh Fe ...
Economists remain divided on whether the unrevised WPI base will distort real GDP estimates as India shifts its GDP base year to 2022-23, even as CPI has been rebased ...
Did our AI summary help? Concerns that the continued use of the older wholesale price index series could distort growth calculations are misplaced, as the new GDP series will rely on more granular, ...
India’s GDP has grown at a robust 8.2% in the second quarter of the financial year - a number that beats all estimates by economists and even the RBI. The six-quarter high real GDP growth is expected ...