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Note ban, GST hampered India’s GDP growth last year: Raghuram Rajan

12 Nov 2018 Evaluate

Stressing 7% gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate not sufficient to meet the country’s needs, Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan has said that demonetisation of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes along with implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime are the two major headwinds that held back the country’s economic growth last year. He also said that Indian economy was growing at a faster pace between 2012 and 2016 before it was hit by two major headwinds.

Rajan has stated that growth has fallen off interestingly at a time when growth in the global economy has been peaking up. He pointed out that a growth rate of seven percent per year for 25 years is ‘very very strong’ growth, but in some sense this has become the new Hindu rate of growth, which earlier used to be three-and-a-half per cent. He said that “The reality is that seven is not enough for the kind of people coming into the labour market and we need jobs for them, So, we need more and cannot be satisfied at this level.” Observing that India is sensitive to global growth, he said India has become a much more open economy, and if the world grows, it also grows more.

Ex-RBI governor further said that while India's growth is picking up again, there is the issue of oil prices, the economist noted referring to the huge reliance of India on import of oil for its energy needs. With the oil prices going up, he said that things are going to be little tougher for the Indian economy, even though the country is recovering from the two successive shocks of note ban and the GST.

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