FINANCE Minister Fayval Williams on Tuesday responded to concerns raised by the Independent Fiscal Commission about the state ...
After more than a decade of questions and debates, India is set to finally get an updated gauge of its GDP, with the Ministry ...
The sharp uptick was largely due to the impact of GDP deflators, which remained unusually soft, particularly in the primary and secondary sectors ...
According to the initial estimate, the volume of GDP in comparable prices was 98.8% compared to the level of January-February 2025.
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Reliable macroeconomic statistics are fundamental to economic governance. Last year, the IMF, even while revising India’s GDP growth projections upwards, assigned a “C” rating to our National Accounts ...
With the shift to a new base year, economists are watching closely to see whether India’s GDP growth will continue to hover ...
If measurement itself becomes a subject of debate, the informational foundations of economic policymaking inevitably weaken ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's policy makers should monitor the gross domestic product deflator to measure progress in stoking inflation, influential members of a panel that advises the government said on ...
Economists remain divided on whether the unrevised WPI base will distort real GDP estimates as India shifts its GDP base year to 2022-23, even as CPI has been rebased ...
Did our AI summary help? Concerns that the continued use of the older wholesale price index series could distort growth calculations are misplaced, as the new GDP series will rely on more granular, ...