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Budget's focus on capex to crowd-in pvt investment, push growth to 7%: RBI

The Union Budget's focus on capital expenditure is expected to crowd-in private investment and push the GDP growth rate close to 7 per cent in the next financial year beginning April 1, said a Reserve Bank article on 'State of the Economy'. In 2023-24, capital expenditure is budgeted at Rs 10 lakh crore which will constitute 3.3 per cent of GDP. "We believe that India will decouple from macroeconomic projections of current vintage and also from the rest of the world. "In our view, the instrument of decoupling will be the Union Budget by raising India's growth prospects over the period 2023-27; and raising India's potential growth," said the article 'State of the Economy' published in the RBI's February 2023 Bulletin. It further said the Union Budget's tax, capex and fiscal consolidation proposals can take India's real GDP growth close to 7 per cent in 2023-24 if they are effectively implemented. "The Union Budget 2023-24's emphasis on capital expenditure is expected to crowd-in ..

India's GDP likely to grow at 6.2% in FY24, says Morgan Stanley

Earlier, the Budget for FY24 had projected nominal GDP growth at 10.5 per cent, as the centre increased the capital investment outlay steeply for the third year in a row by 33 per cent to Rs 10 trn

Widening deficit: Worries persist over FY24 current account balance

CAD may be better than expected in FY23, but India won't be completely out of the woods next year, says official

How credible is path of improving quality of fiscal deficit going forward?

Centre's fiscal deficit is projected to come down to 5.9% of GDP next financial year from 6.4% in the current financial year

Budget 2023: Many hits, few misses as Centre sticks to fiscal consolidation

The target of 5.9% is also likely to be met next year, finally bringing it down to below 4.5% of GDP in the financial year 2025-26

Budget 2023 ticks all checkboxes; Adani group stocks played spoilsport

It is typical of markets to rally ahead of the budget proposals and see some profit taking once the measures are announced. This time, however, the Adani group stocks played spoilsport

Canada's real GDP grows 3.8% in 2022 on back of post-pandemic revival

Canada's real gross domestic product (GDP) grew 3.8 per cent in 2022, the national statistical agency announced

Indian economy to grow 6.5% in FY24; CAD may widen further: Economic Survey

It added that India is third-largest economy in the world in PPP (purchasing power parity) terms and fifth largest in terms of exchange rate

From capex to taxation, four things to look out for in Union Budget 2023

This is the last full budget before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, and will be tabled amidst a global slowdown and unprecedented geopolitical uncertainty

Budget 2023: Allocating 6% of GDP by 2030 a must, say education experts

From giving a boost to allocation for education to mental health of students and a push to edtech startups, here are the expectations of the experts for education sector from Union Budget 2023

Ministries flout local procurement rules in govt contracts, says DPIIT

Dept says tender terms favourable to foreign firms

PM Modi to hold pre-Budget meeting with economists, sectoral experts

Ahead of the Union Budget, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet economists and sectoral experts at NITI Aayog on Friday to discuss the state of the economy and measures to accelerate growth which is estimated to drop to 7 per cent, a senior government official said. The official further said that the meeting will also be attended by several Union ministers. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the 2023-24 Budget in Parliament on February 1, 2023 Hit by weakening demand, the Indian economy is expected to grow at a slower rate of 7 per cent in the current fiscal ending March 2023, setting the stage for the country losing the fastest-growing major economy tag. The 7 per cent expansion projected in the first official estimate released by the statistics ministry compares with 8.7 per cent gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2021-22. The projections are much lower than government's earlier forecast of 8-8.5 per cent growth but above the Reserve Bank's projection of 6.8

Indian GDP pegged to grow at 7% in FY23: NSO's advance estimates

The output of the manufacturing sector is estimated to decelerate to 1.6 per cent as against a growth of 9.9 per cent in FY22

CAD widens to 4.4% of GDP in Q2 due to higher trade deficit: RBI data

The country's current account deficit widened to 4.4 per cent of the GDP in the quarter ended September, from 2.2 per cent GDP during the April-June period, due to higher trade gap, as per data released by the Reserve Bank on Thursday "India's current account balance recorded a deficit of USD 36.4 billion (4.4 per cent of GDP) in Q2:2022-23, up from USD 18.2 billion (2.2 per cent of GDP) in Q1:2022-23 and a deficit of US$ 9.7 billion (1.3 per cent of GDP) a year ago [i.e., Q2:2021-22]," the RBI said. Underlying the current account deficit in July-September 2022-23 was the widening of the merchandise trade deficit to USD 83.5 billion from USD 63 billion in first quarter of 2022-23 and an increase in net outgo under investment income. Services exports reported a growth of 30.2 per cent on a year-on-year (y-o-y) basis on the back of rising exports of software, business and travel services. Net services receipts increased both sequentially and on a yearly basis.

Slowdown year

Global and domestic factors will affect output

India to receive record remittances but experts worry CAD will still widen

Of $90 billion remittances that India is expected to receive in 2022, only $27.4 billion has come in the first half of the year

India GDP grew by 9.7% in H1FY23, says Finance Ministry

The Ministry said it could not present the Medium Term Expenditure Framework in Parliament, as mandated by the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act

The race to $1trillion economy among states: Who gets there first?

The bigger the state's economy, the better placed it is to reach that proverbial milestone

YouTube creators contributed Rs 10,000 cr to India's GDP in 2021: Study

Video sharing platform supported more than 750,000 full-time equivalent jobs in the country

CBDT seeks detailed report on the top 15 taxpayers in each region

Directive issued for maximising revenue collection and monitoring advance tax mop up