Indian economy likely to grow by 6.3% in 2016: United Nations

12 Dec 2014 Evaluate

United Nations, in its latest report ‘the UN World Economic Situation and Prospects 2015 (WESP)’ has stated that India’s GDP growth is likely to improve to 5.9% next year and 6.3% in 2016 from projected 5.4% economic growth during 2014. The report expects that the country will likely make progress through implementing economic policy reforms and providing support to business and consumer confidence.

During the past two fiscal, Indian economy had been struggling with slowdown and its growth slipped below 5%.  The factors like high interest rate and stubborn inflation, low investments and slow execution of infrastructure projects have impacted country’s economy growth.  However, the domestic economy has shown signs of nascent recovery and expanded at 5.5% during first half of this fiscal, as compared to 4.9% in the same period of previous fiscal. 

On global level, the UN report stated that apart from India, the baseline forecast projects a moderate growth recovery in 2015 and 2016 for almost all emerging economies, including Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, South Africa and Turkey. Developing countries as a group are expected to grow at 4.8 % in 2015 and 5.1% in 2016, up from the 4.3% estimated for 2014. Economic growth in South Asia region is also set to pick up from an estimated 4.9% in 2014 to 5.4% in 2015 and 5.7% in 2016. Although the recovery will be led by India, which accounts for about 70% of regional output, other countries such as Bangladesh and Iran are also projected to witness stronger growth in the forecast period.

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