Page 5 - Consumption

Covid may push India growth model from consumption driven to investment-led

The Covid-19 pandemic could act as an inflection point to shift India's growth model from being consumption driven to investments-led.

The ultimate scarcity: Overall consumption has stagnated over four years

Economic performance is also affected if large numbers of people are out of work, or at such low levels of income as to force under-consumption, writes T N Ninan

Need to further fuel drivers of consumption, private investment: Industry

There is a need to further fuel the drivers of household consumption and private investments to enhance the aggregate demand in the economy, industry chamber PHDCCI said on Sunday.

Middle class consumption will create $15 trn Indian economy: Gautam Adani

Group's focus is on creating long-term sustainable value, says businessman

Best of BS Opinion: India's data deficiency, question of compliance & more

Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Wednesday

Q2 countdown: Pause over, India's consumption story moving fast again

Unlock, good monsoon, better pace of vaccination and rural demand could galvanise recovery

Despite hit to consumption, TV advertising grows in second wave: ASCI

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Burden of taxation impeding household consumption, says Ind Ra

Meanwhile, the agency also said that the second wave is likely to impact rural loan collections in securitised pools of loans.

Consumption recovery this time could be swifter than FY21: Phoenix Mills MD

In a Q&A, Shishir Shrivastava says his firm should start hitting the consumption trajectory of FY20 within 30-40 days

Can the rich help?

The recovery cannot be investments-led because most enterprises are nursing excess capacities

RBI says economic cost of second Covid-19 wave may be limited to Q1

Government must now step up expenditure to boost demand for private investment and consumption, said RBI

India's consumption market likely to triple by 2030, says BCG report

The consumption spurt will be driven by urbanisation, higher disposable incomes, and nuclear families

India Coronavirus Dispatch: Poll booths, wedding halls part of vaccine plan

Factors that will increase pressure to ration healthcare, signs of green shoots in consumer spending, lowest single-day death toll so far-news relevant to India's fight against Covid-19

Govt 'cautiously optimistic' as GDP contraction not so sharp in Q2: CEA

Warns about the possibility of another, more devastating Covid wave, strikes an optimistic chord on declining infections

Middle-aged, older people to drive future consumption in India: BCG

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, consumption will continue to grow at a steady pace, the consultancy says, tripling in size in 10 years

New inflation index to impact DA, 30 mn govt staff to get more pay

The CPI-IW hasn't been revised since 2001 - an exercise which should usually take place every five years

FM's consumption boost of Rs 1 trillion to turbocharge e-commerce cos

While India e-commerce is booming, retail sector is steadily recovering post 'unlock' to reach over 80% of pre-Covid levels of about $780 bn in 2020, according to RedSeer

Challenges galore for Sanket Ray, Coca-Cola's new head for India & SW Asia

With the Covid-19 pandemic shattering the country's economy, resulting in mass layoffs and salary cuts, the cola major is now facing faltering sales and an overall slowdown in consumption

Severe shock to consumption, economy will take longer to recover: RBI

"Retrenchment in activity that is unprecedented in history," says the annual report released by the central bank

Japan economy shrinks 27.8% in April-June as Covid-19 slams consumption

Japanese media reported the latest drop was the worst since World War II