Experts say it will now be tough for the Modi government to catch up with the UPA's economic record owing to the shock induced by the currency demonetisation.
India's annual industrial output grew at a slower-than-expected pace of 3.6 percent in September.
'The economy may not improve unless you admit there are some problems.'
The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) on Thursday lowered the GDP projection for the current fiscal to 4.7-4.9 per cent due to exchange rate depreciation.
A freely convertible country must have sound macroeconomic policies.
Import growth moderated to a four-month low, owing to sharp decline in that of gold.
For 2017-18 and 2018-19, investors are better off focusing on the quality of measures announced in the Budget and outside it rather than on the Budget numbers themselves, says T T Ram Mohan.
Much of the Q3 data will simply not be available for the CSO to factor in its calculation.
The manufacturing sector, which accounts for over 75 per cent of the index, declined by 2.4 per cent against a growth of 4.1 per cent in December 2014.
The global rating agency expects the economy to pick up in the next two financial years.
Growth in the third quarter (October-December) is expected to be the weakest in years, with spending hit due to unavailability of enough replacement currency.
'We are looking at the Budget with the hope that it will address all issues even at the cost of exceeding the fiscal deficit target.'
Rajan also said the outlook for agriculture is subdued, in view of both rabi and kharif prospects being hit by monsoon vagaries.
The new numbers clearly had very different implications.
Improved performance of manufacturing, services and trade sectors helped boost GDP
The panel finds 'discrepancy' in the Annual Survey of Industries data.
RE of GDP for 2015-16 show that the economy grew 7.9% in 2015-16, rather than the earlier estimate of 7.6 per cent.
Industrial production expanded a provisional 3.4 per cent year-on-year in June.
Lower revenue collection puts upward pressure on government borrowing, ensuring that it deviates from the glided path of debt reduction
From linking innovation with supply of inputs to providing contract farming, the private sector can help agriculture move to the next stage of development.
Only power generation grew faster in 2014 than in earlier years.
FY17 GDP growth faces cash crunch heat
Credit rating agency Crisil observed in its report that some 'high frequency indicators go out of whack' as credit growth and service tax collections are not in tune with the CSO's growth projections.
The Economic Survey was tabled in the Parliament on Friday.
The mismatch between PMI and core sector could also be due to the fact that while core sector is calculated year-on-year, PMI is calculated month-on-month.
It is too late in the government's term for it to pull its usual trick of blaming the last guys.
Headed by Urjit Patel, MPC for the fourth straight time kept the repo rate unchanged, at which it lends to the banks, at 6.25 per cent. The reverse repo, at which RBI borrows, will be 6 per cent.
The most serious recommendations to change the financial year came in the years preceded by deficient rainfall. The Jha committee was formed after droughts in 1979-80 and 1982-83, reports Rishika Pardikar/IndiaSpend.
The final agriculture GDP numbers for 2016-17 are expected to be revised up, as rabi production is looking really good.
Against a turbulent and uncertain background, Budget 2017-18 hewed a steady, forward-looking course, says Shankar Acharya, former chief economic adviser to the government.
The mining sector grew by 4.3 per cent in June as against a dip of 4.6 per a year ago.
The manufacturing sector during the fourth quarter recorded a growth rate of 9.3 per cent while the farm sector grew at 2.3 per cent.
It is not a good idea to take the line that since demonetisation happened in the third quarter, everything that happened then was a consequence of that, says Chief Statistician TCA Anant.
Questions on the efficacy of the government's drive towards filing of more returns by individuals and on whether raising tax exemption levels has led to reduced compliance in filing of returns by those who go out of the tax net, says A K Bhattacharya.
In recent past, midcap stocks have performed well, say experts.
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Savings in deposits by the households rose, however, to Rs 1 trillion (17 per cent) in the year to Rs 6.91 trillion in FY14 as against Rs 5.91 trillion in 2012-13.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan's decision to cut rates last week surprised even top officials.
The World Bank's latest review of its purchasing power parity (PPP) baseline will reignite the poverty debate.
India grew at 7.6% in 2015-16 and at 7.2% in 2014-15.
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