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CAD narrows to $1.3 billion or 0.2% of the GDP in the March quarter

11 Jun 2015 Evaluate

In a positive sign for the economy, current account deficit (CAD), the excess of spending overseas than earnings, narrowed to $1.3 billion or 0.2 percent of the GDP in the March quarter from $8.3 billion or 1.6 percent of GDP in the previous quarter, due to the slide in crude oil and commodity prices. On year-on-year basis, CAD in the fourth quarter was a shade higher than $ 1.2 billion or 0.2 percent of GDP in the same quarter of financial year 2013-14. The CAD has narrowed for the second straight quarter now.

For the full fiscal 2014-15, the CAD shrank to $ 27.5 billion, or 1.3 percent of GDP, from $ 32.4 billion or 1.7 percent of GDP a year ago. The Reserve Bank of India data further showed that the country’s balance of payments recorded a quarterly surplus of $30.1 billion, helped by robust capital inflows and the narrow CAD.

RBI stated that lower CAD, on the back of contraction in trade deficit and marginal improvement in the net invisible earnings, along with a sizable increase in net financial flows enabled a large build-up of reserves. The central bank also said that it added a whopping $ 61.4 billion to the foreign exchange reserves in 2014-15 compared to $ 15.5 billion in the previous fiscal.

Merchandise trade deficit for the January-March period stood at $27 billion, much lower than around $40 billion in the previous three-month period. However, a fall in exports is worrisome. However, in year-over-year terms, the trade deficit in the fourth quarter widened marginally as exports registered a larger decline of 15.4 percent than imports of 10.4 percent.

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