Three things follow from GOI’s latest GDP figures

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Three, it gives RBI more flexibility to manage rupee..

It is a matter of considerable cheer for those who have the luxury of knowing the rate of. rather than by lived experience that Indias pace of economic expansion is accelerating, even as the rest of the world scrambles to avert recession...

By forecasting the growth rate of the economy for the present fiscal year, which will conclude by the end of this month, at 7.6%, faster than the 7% achieved in the previous fiscal, CSO has accomplished several things..

One, it gives a shot in the arm to. s credibility as a good manager of the economy; two, it encourages private industry, whose contribution to fresh investment and capital formation has been rather anaemic so far, to commit to expanding capacity and building infrastructure, now that growth is a reality rather than a tantalising prospect; and, three, it gives RBI some additional leeway in stabilising the rupee, even if a flood of external capital gushes in, chasing returns offered by fast growth..

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