Come July, India will unveil its inaugural Index of Services Production to correctly assess the pulse of the country's critical services se...

The statistics ministry has proposed the new base year for GDP and IIP as 2017-18 while for CPI it will be 2018.

According to SBI's research report Ecowrap, the GDP numbers scheduled to be released on May 31, is expected to be "pleasant affair" and the...

Now that the current GDP series and the IIP are on the same base, the directional bias has been eliminated

The change in baseline for the IIP is expected to bring in more accuracy in mapping the level of economic activity and calculating other nu...

The issue has gained notice since the 2008 global financial crisis when manufacturing GDP has been growing faster than IIP.

While India's gross domestic product captures value-added figures, the index of industrial production (IIP) does not, which results in a ga...

One of the main reasons for GDP or IIP data being revised upward or downward is simply that such data is collected with a large time lag.

CSO has been pushing for independent data collection for long to ensure accuracy in data release, which have come under fire for errors in ...

Changes in the core sector index may not be captured by the IIP, and the error, even if small, can spill over to the GDP estimates

Financial markets have in the past reacted sharply to release of IIP, GDP and CPI numbers at the scheduled time of around 1100 hours.

Chief Statistician TCA Anant plays down the poor industry performance saying that month-on-month performance is similar to the previous yea...

Well, not really, as people had an idea that growth could disappoint in the light of the poor IIP data from the same time.

There is not too much ability that RBI has at this moment to control the currency. Yes, it is more for the government to handle it rather t...

In an interview with ET Now, N Seshadri, Executive Director, Bank of India, gives his reaction on the IIP numbers and how it will affect RB...

The latest rounds of GDP and IIP numbers indicate an upward bias while the new inflation numbers signal a downward bent.

Indranil Pan, Chief Economist, Kotak Mahindra Bank Shared his insight into the IIP numbers with ET NOW