Nirmala Sitharaman to launch portal with economic repository of 30 years
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will launch the “NITI NCAER States Economic Forum” portal on Tuesday in New Delhi.
With the country’s Gross Domestic Product falling continuously in the last four quarters, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday said India urgently needs more ambitious structural and financial sector reform measures and a medium-term fiscal consolidation strategy due to the rising debt levels.
Responding to a question on the recent budget presented by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, IMF Spokesperson Gerry Rice said that there is a weaker economic environment in India.
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“While the budget touches on ongoing sectoral efforts, there remains an urgent need for more ambitious structural and financial sector reform measures and a medium-term fiscal consolidation strategy, anchored intangible revenue and expenditure measures, especially given rising debt levels,” Rice told reporters.
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“The environment is weaker than we had forecast earlier, that a more accumulative fiscal stance, this year, is appropriate, so that more accumulative fiscal stance in the budget, we think, is appropriate,” he said.
“But, over the medium term, to be looking at a fiscal consolidation strategy,” Rice said. The IMF in January lowered India’s economic growth estimate for the current fiscal to 4.8 percent.
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