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India to remain global growth driver in foreseeable future: IMF executive directorKrishnamurthy V Subramaniam, Executive Director of the IMF, predicts India will remain a key driver of global growth, citing consistent 7%+...
China factory output rebounds on zero-Covid relaxationPandemic prevention measures have "entered a new stage" that is allowing "a gradual return" to normal life, National Bureau of Statistics (...
View: Statisticians are not crooks. But their methodologies do need to changeThe government is wrong to try and hide NSSO data. But that does not make the data any less incredible.
NDA govt's growth figures are a sham: P ChidambaramWhen the next government comes and presents the real numbers, this government will be exposed, says former FM.
View: Politicisation of GDP numbers won't lead anywhereGoing by the furore following the release of the GDP data for the period 2005-06 to 2011-12 by the CSO, there is no consensus in sight even...
Job guarantee programme was a mistake, says Harvard Professor Martin Feldstein"The US economy is booming. I don't think I could say as much about Europe. India is doing very well. China, I wouldn't say , is changing b...
Is Indian GDP data turning a little too Chinese?India’s govt would be wise to take its own numbers with a grain of salt. As many questions should be aired within the govt as are being rai...
Puzzling why CSO motives are being questioned on GDP: MoS Finance, Jayant SinhaSinha said it is for the professionals to look at variability but important is the trend and direction and which sectors are doing well or ...
Need private investment for faster growth: RBI Governor Raghuram RajanRBI Governor Raghuram Rajan He said India is capable of growing at a faster pace, while adding that the "true numbers" of GDP could be one ...
China faces deflation as producer prices slide to 6-year lowSaddled with the economic slowdown, China, world's second largest economy, faced deflation risk as the producer prices continued to fall in...
Big reforms not easy in India with multiple veto centres: CEAThe upward revision to GDP figures, pursuant to change in methodology, has come in for criticism from various quarters, including by RBI.
- Copper's weak demand may pull prices down
Copper traders are the most bearish in four months on mounting concern that demand for industrial metals will weaken as growth slows from C...
- Anant panel to fix core investment in infrastructure sector
TCA Anant to access the actual investment flow in the infrastructure sector and correct the mismatch between capital formation as recorded ...
- Rising export prices from China add inflationary pressure to India
There is a China hand in India's inflation, one important reason why the steady rise in interest rates may not be cooling the high inflatio...
- GDP: Professionals who measure India under impossible odds
Behind GDP and 115 other crucial data sets published every year is a small, underpaid, overworked band of government number crunchers.
- Improved supplies keep food inflation nearly flat at 16.24%
Food inflation eased marginally to 16.24% for the week ended September 25, from 16.44% in the previous week, as improved supplies lowered p...
- Q1 indirect tax mop-up rises 43% on industrial recovery
Indirect tax collections grew by a whopping 43% in the first three months of the current fiscal, providing further testimony to a recovery ...
- Economists' take on impact of Greek crisis on Indian economy
ET spoke to India's leading economists to ascertain the impact of the crisis on the Indian economy.
- Chief statistician counts on 8% growth patch
The economy could fire on all cylinders and outgrow all projections for the current fiscal, be it the finance ministry’s 6% or the Reserve ...
- Govt steps up FDI vigil, to maintain updates on cos
The government is becoming more circumspect in FDI monitoring even as it liberalises the approval mechanism.