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Modi Govt Needs To Focus On 5 Things To Fix Economic Slowdown: PM’s Former Advisor

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06/12/2019

The Narendra Modi government has been facing criticism from most quarters over its handling of the economy, especially after the latest numbers showed that the official GDP growth rate for the July-September quarter has slumped to a six-year low of about 4.5%.
 
While the government has …

Demand, supply and growth slowdowns

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06/12/2019

For India to complete its development transformation, a switch to a broad-based and more inclusive composition of domestic demand is of the first importance
 
There is an ongoing debate about whether the current slowdown reflects a demand- or supply-constrained economy. Analytically, this question is pertinent …

Rathin Roy interview: ‘Indian economy needs antibiotics, not painkillers’

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06/12/2019

The former member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council says a stimulus package without reforms will only achieve ‘stagflation’.
 
Official estimates from last week show that India’s Gross Domestic Product growth has slowed from 7% in just four quarters to 4.5%. On Thursday, the …

Minimum Wage Macroeconomics

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08/11/2019

The government has taken several policy initiatives to address the current economic slowdown. These important and necessary measures to ameliorate the slowdown have addressed 1) sentiment, 2) the credit pipeline, 3) policy misinterpretations and 4) sector specific issues. However, if, as I have been arguing, the roots of the …

Coherent set of immediate actions

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16/10/2019

The government must announce a calendar for implementation of Friday's measures
 
I have been concerned about some macro-solutions proposed to address the slowdown. Calls for fiscal stimulus are misplaced and would, without much sustained benefit, jeopardise the hard-earned macroeconomic stability attained since 2014. Monetary and …