Economic Growth

Asking India to liberalise its foreign investment policies, particularly in the financial services sector, the US today said further opening these areas can add about 1.5% to the country's economic growth. Full Article

Admitting that the Reserve Bank’s anti-inflation monetary measures may impact growth, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said the major challenge right now is to contain price rise. 'The monetary policy has been gradually tightened... Monetary measures may end up moderating the growth if they have to be persisted for an extended period of time,' Mr. Mukherjee said at an Assocham meet here. Full Article

India's economy is expected to clock a growth rate of around 8 per cent this fiscal, lower than the government's projection, due to decline in investments and industrial production, global financial services firm Citigroup said today. It also said that the Reserve Bank is likely to go for a 75-100 basis points cumulative hike in key-policy rates this year due to the sustaining high inflation. Full Article

With improvement in economic growth, the financial position of the states has started showing improvement and they are moving towards the path of fiscal consolidation, says a RBI report. "The budgetary position of States in 2010-11 indicated a turnaround from the expansionary fiscal stance in 2008-09 and 2009-10 to a fiscal consolidation path in 2010-11," said State Finances:A Study of Budgets of 2010-11, released by RBI. Full Article

Union Finance Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee said that our economic policies need to be designed in such a manner that the redistributing process does not feed off the public finances and the growth process itself is not hampered. Shri Mukherjee sai Full Article

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday exuded confidence that the Indian economy will post better growth than 8.75 per cent this fiscal, as projected by the economic survey. Full Article

It time for a profit booking. Sound pretty harsh and surprised that I have started the topic with a bang of sell trigger. Yes you are correct to read what I wrote. Last week the equities markets in US and Asian economies went for a vacation of free fall. We saw Indian browsers and other Asian markets went for a profit booking followed with US markets. Full Article

China has been the first nation to come out of the dark clouds of recession. In my past articles I have tried to depict a picture of the Chinese economy as well as draw correlation with our Indian economic growth. We have seen Chinese economic growth from all sectors some correlated with Indian economic growth. Full Article