The net FDI for 2006-07 would be around $9 billion, up from $4.7 billion last year, the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council said in its update on the country's balance of payments outlook for this fiscal.
"For some more time inflation can increase. It could touch 13 per cent, but by December it will start declining and is likely to moderate to 8-9 per cent by March 2009," said outgoing chairman of the PMEAC C Rangarajan while releasing the Economic Outlook for 2008-09.
Inflation can drop below 8 per cent if confluence of factors like fall in global crude oil followed by a good monsoon work, Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council chairman C Rangarajan said.
The central government is likely to prescribe a special rate of abatement on the retail prices of drugs for calculation of excise duty.
Rejecting IMF and World Bank's "unduly" pessimistic projections, Prime Minister's key economic advisory council chairman C Rangarajan on Thursday exuded confidence that the growth would be around 5.5 per cent in the current fiscal.
Pointing out that inflation rate is a little beyond comfort zone, the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council said the current situation is not favourable for a cut in interest rates. The inflation rate stood at 5.11 per cent for the week ended March 1. For the second week in a row that the rate was over 5%. The RBI aims to limit average rate of inflation for the current fiscal at 5 per cent. When the inflation rate is rising, it is always critical to bring down the rates.
The Reserve Bank may raise key policy rates by up to 50 basis points in its July 27 monetary policy review to check double-digit inflation, said a member of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council.
The Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council has approved Reliance Industries' 4.33 dollars per mBtu price of gas from KG-D6 fields, saying it was in line with industry practices.
Further hike will depend on the RBI's assessment
The Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, of which he is chairman, has quickly sought to distance itself and the government from Dr Debroy's views.
Prime Minister's key economic advisor C Rangarajan on Friday lowered the growth forecast for the current fiscal to 5.3 per cent from 6.4 per cent projected earlier and listed out host of measures including further liberalisation of foreign direct investment norms to improve economic condition.
The Planning Commission in May 2012 had constituted the expert group under the then Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council Chairman C Rangarajan to review the Tendulkar Committee methodology for estimating poverty, following an uproar over the number of poor in the country.
On Friday, Biden announced his intent to appoint 14 people to the advisory committee, which provides overall policy advice to the United States trade representative on matters of development, implementation, and administration of the US trade policy.
Using the same methodology as the EAC-PM study, the fastest-growing religious population is, in fact, the Buddhists. The Buddhist population increased by over 1,600 per cent between 1950 and 2015.
Muslims' share in the reservation will keep on increasing also because of "conversion and infiltration because they are having a secular cover from them (the Congress)", he added.
India's economy is moving towards a higher growth trajectory and is likely to grow at around 10 per cent in 2021-22, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) chairman Bibek Debroy said on Wednesday. "I am confident that we are on a path towards a higher growth trajectory, higher poverty reduction, higher employment, and a prosperous, more developed and better governed India. "I think it is, more or less, agreed that the real rate of growth this year (FY2022) is going to be around 10 per cent," Debroy said at an SBI event. At the beginning of FY2021-22, the forecasts for real growth were in the 8.5-12.5 per cent range, he noted.
Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council Chairman C Rangarajan dashes bullion firms' duty cut hopes.
The police in Kanpur have lodged an FIR against The Week magazine amid a row over "objectionable pictures" of Lord Shiva and Goddess Kali that has led Hindu activists to burn copies of the magazine and economist Bibek Debroy end his association with it.
Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) chairman Bibek Debroy on Tuesday said the government was losing revenue due to the GST, which should be revenue neutral with a single rate. Speaking at an event organised by the Calcutta Chamber of Commerce in Kolkata, he however said that GST has led to a lot of simplification. "The ideal GST is one that has a single rate, and it was meant to be revenue neutral.
From social engineering to bearing the cost of COVID-19 treatment to financial reconstruction of Tamil Nadu's debt the debutant chief minister is emerging as a leader with a difference, says Shjne Jacob
Last month, the government approved the proposal of doubling gas price from RIL's KG basin from $4.2 mmbtu to $8.4 mmbtu from April 1, 2014.
'The real lifting of the economy will happen only if this momentum sustains in the coming months.'
NITI Aayog has a dual role of a monitor and advisor.
Bhalla will succeed former RBI deputy governor Subir Gokarn, who died in the US on July 30 after a brief illness.
Life has come full circle for Nobel laureate Professor Mohammad Yunus, who faced persecution during Sheikh Hasina's regime for embezzlement, is now all set to head of the interim government in Bangladesh after she resigned and fled the country.
The panel noted that the macro-economic fundamentals of the economy are sound but challenges remain, several of which are structural in nature.
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The stock market responded to his speech by going up by over two per cent; the rupee also gained in strength, by about 1.45 per cent, against the dollar.
Banks should neither be timid nor adventurous while lending as the loans of today should not become NPAs of tomorrow, he said.
The panel may include or seek inputs from former RBI Governor Urjit Patel, former chief economic advisor Arvind Subramanian, Sajjid Chinoy of the PM-EAC, Rathin Roy, among others.
An official announcement to this effect would be made next week. The vice-chairman would be of Cabinet rank.
Says licensing of new banks should be a continuous process instead of the current stop-go system
Data earlier on Thursday showed the annual consumer price inflation rose to a higher-than-expected 11.24 per cent in November from 10.17 per cent in October.
The MPC headed by RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das will announce the resolution of the meeting at around noon on Thursday.
Ahmadis are designated non-Muslims in Pakistan's Constitution and their beliefs are considered blasphemous in most mainstream Islamic schools of thought.
"The Union Budget represents the aspirations of 130 crore Indians and lays out the path towards India's development. I invite you all to share your ideas and suggestions for this year's Budget on MyGov," the PM said according to a statement posted on his official website on Thursday.
The country's economy will start witnessing a growth of 6.5 to 7 per cent from fiscal 2023 onwards, helped by various reforms undertaken by the government so far and also as COVID-19 vaccination drive progresses, Chief Economic Advisor Krishnamurthy Subramanian said. He said the second wave of COVID-19 is unlikely to have a very significant on the economy. The country's economy contracted by 7.3 per cent in fiscal 2020-21. "Together with the reforms and focus on vaccination, I expect growth to start hitting close 6.5 to 7 per cent from FY23 onwards and accelerate from there on," Subramanian said at a virtual event organised by Dun & Bradstreet.
India's economic growth rate is expected to be at least 6 per cent in the 2013-14 fiscal, Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) Chairman C Rangarajan said.
