While ringing warning bells over the growth of world economy, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), akin to World Bank, raised the country's growth forecast to 5.6% for 2014 from its earlier estimate of 5.4% and forecasted a higher 6.4% growth in 2015 on the back of renewed confidence in the market due to a series of economic reforms pursued by the new Government.
Earlier the World Bank underscored that Indian economy, which accounts for 80 percent of South Asia's output, is set to grow by 6.4 percent in 2015-16 as against 5.6% in 2014-15, buoyed by expectations from the newly elected government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
IMF, in its flagship half-yearly world economic outlook (WEO), highlighted global growth of 3.3% in 2014, which was 0.4 points lower than forecast made in the April WEO and 0.1 points down on interim forecasts made in July and warned that failure of countries to recover strongly from the worst recession of the postwar era meant there was a risk of stagnation or persistently weak activity.
IMF pointed that India has recovered from its relative slump thanks in part to policy and a renewal of confidence, which is expected to lift growth higher above the ‘5%’ mark. However, for emerging market economies as whole, it forecasted growth of around 1.5% lower than one witnessed in 2011. Meanwhile, among advance economies, it noted that UK and US leaving behind the financial crisis were achieving decent growth. According to IMF, Britain is forecasted to see its gross domestic product increase by 3.2% in 2014, up 0.3 points from the April WEO and the fastest of any G7 nation, while America is expected to expand to 2.2% this year to 3.1% in 2015.
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