While on the growth outlook of the next financial year FY24, he said he is optimistic on the growth story than many of global agencies forecast
Growth numbers for the second quarter of the current financial year are scheduled to be out today
Says domestic demand recovery will support growth
Says India is set to be second-fastest growing G-20 economy in FY23, despite decelerating global demand and tightening of monetary policy to manage inflationary pressures
Rating agencies Crisil and Icra on Monday revised down their India growth projections for the current fiscal and the second quarter mainly due to the ripple effect of slowdown in global growth and mixed crop output. Crisil downgraded the India growth forecast by 30 bps to 7 per cent while Icra pegged the economic expansion at 6.5 per cent for the second quarter of FY2022-23. "We have revised down our forecast for real gross domestic product growth to 7 per cent for fiscal 2023 from 7.3 per cent, primarily because of the slowdown in global growth that has started to impact our exports and industrial activity. This will test the resilience of domestic demand," Crisil chief economist Dharmakirti Joshi said in a note. Aditi Nayar, his counterpart at Icra, in her report pencilled a 6.5 per cent growth in Q2 of the current fiscal, nearly half of the year-ago quarter when the economy had clipped at 12.7 per cent, but which is still a tad higher than the monetary policy committee's Septembe
Weak rupee, and high oil prices cited as reasons for the downward revision
RBI Policy: Shaktikanta Das announced the RBI MPC's decision to hike the repo rate by 50 basis points to 5.9% and slash the GDP forecast for FY23 to 7% from 7.2% earlier
Earlier forecast was 7.2%; institution says high inflation is another growth hurdle, cut FY24 forecast to 7.2% from 7.8%
'Signs are very encouraging' are for the Indian economy, he says in an interview
By the end of 2023, GDP will be about 8% below where output was in 2021, according to the credit rating watchdog's forecast
At a more macro level, Fitch now expects world GDP to grow by 2.4 per cent in 2022 - revised down by 0.5 percentage points (ppt) since the June assessment
India Ratings projects GDP growth of 7.2 percent in July-September FY23 quarter, 4 percent in October-December and 4.1 percent in February-March
Says credit profile reflects strengths like large and diversified economy, but warns that country is highly exposed to climate change events
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Global credit rating agency Moody's Investors Service reduced the 2022 real gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast for G-20 countries to 2.5 per cent from 3.1 per cent made in May
Later on Wednesday, the finance ministry is due to present the government's budget proposal for 2023 as well as new economic forecasts
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This is lower than RBI's April-June (Q1FY23) GDP projection of 16.2%
Says there is significant slack in the economy, as GDP is far below estimates of pre-Covid trajectory of potential output
On Thursday, ADB lowered India's growth forecast from 7.5 per cent to 7.2 per cent for FY23. Earlier on July 18, US-based Morgan Stanley also slashed India's GDP growth forecast to 7.2 per cent