Key Points
In an interview, NITI Aayog vice chairman Suman Bery discusses the impact of staying on the "fiscal glide path" on India's credit ratings and private investment..
He praises the finance minister for staying the course on fiscal consolidation, which provides headroom for the Reserve Bank of India and impacts the credit ratings of corporates and banks..
Bery notes that the timing is right for a huge capex cycle in the private sector and emphasizes the need for regulatory reforms, decentralization, and freeing up sectors like agriculture and energy..
Additionally, Bery highlights the challenge of a growing population and the progress made in reducing multidimensional poverty, but suggests that more significant measures may be included in the full budget.Agencies..
The next generation reforms are about avoiding what some economists call the middle-income trap through decentralisation and giving flexibility, and freeing up sectors like agriculture and energy where we have highly distorted markets..
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