In a major achievement, Uttar Pradesh’s economy has more than doubled, rising from Rs 12.88 lakh crore in 2017 to Rs 27.51 lakh crore today, all without raising taxes.
“Car purchases in India are largely limited to the top 12% of households with an annual income exceeding Rs12 lakh, while even small cars have become unaffordable for the remaining 88%."
India’s services sector, long the linchpin of its economic dynamism, is showing signs of moderation.
India will remain the fastest growing economy among the advanced and emerging G-20 countries and the large size of its domestic market makes the country less vulnerable to potential shocks from US tariff policy.
In its Economic Outlook for Asia-Pacific (APAC), S&P said that despite these external strains, it expects domestic demand momentum to remain solid in most emerging-market economies.
With elections to the European Parliament scheduled from June 6 to 9, the continent stands at a critical juncture.
The better outlook is fueled by lower inflation, robust exports, and increased foreign investments, Hamid Rashid, the chief of the UN’s Global Economic Monitoring Branch, said on Thursday.
Announcements almost every other day compel us to believe that India is now the fifth largest economy in the world; that India will be a $5 trillion economy very soon; that India will be the third largest economy of the world in 2027, and that India will become a developed nation in 2047.
As the Indian economy is expanding, more and more jobs are being created. There is, however, a difference of opinion over the pace and number of enabling economic opportunities being created across the country.
Inflation, once thought to be tamed and controlled by the steady hand of central banks, is staging a comeback, and it is not a quiet one. The era of low inflation, marked by decades of economic stability, seems like a distant memory as we grapple with the resurgence of price pressures.
