IMF lowers India's growth projection to 5.9% for current fiscal

IMF lowers India's growth projection to 5.9% for current fiscal

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Category : Business and economics Published on: April 14 2023

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  • The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has lowered India's economic growth projection for the current fiscal to 5.9 per cent from 6.1 per cent earlier.
  • In its annual World Economic Outlook, IMF also lowered the forecast for 2024-25 fiscal (April 2024 to March 2025) to 6.3 per cent from the 6.8 per cent it had predicted in January this year.
  • The growth rate of 5.9 per cent in the 2023-24 fiscal compares to an estimated 6.8 per cent in the previous year.
  • IMF growth forecast is lower than projections by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). RBI sees a 7 per cent GDP growth in 2022-23 and a 6.4 per cent in the current fiscal that started on April 1.
  • China's growth rate is projected to be 5.2 per cent in 2023 and 4.5 per cent in 2024 against its growth rate of three per cent in 2022.
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