In a bid to spur economic growth in developing member countries (DMCs), Economic Affairs Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg has stressed on channeling pension and sovereign wealth funds of advanced countries to emerging markets with the assistance of Asian Development Bank (ADB). He also said that innovation in financing will be the key to success of long-term growth strategy.
Garg said “if we can, with ADB assisting, ensure flow of funds from advanced economies to the emerging market and developing economies, we would succeed in not only keeping global growth sustained high but also make significant dent on poverty and infrastructure services debt.” He also emphasized that it is in emerging markets and developing economies where consumption is rising and more investment can and should be made there. On the other hand, he said, due to several factors, advanced economies are seeing stagnant consumption and they have much larger savings pools in pensions, insurance and sovereign wealth funds than their investment requirement.
Talking about the Indian economy, the Secretary said India has witnessed a robust growth of 7.5 percent on an average in the previous five years and has become world's fastest growing economy. He pointed out that this momentum in growth has been combined with efforts in containing inflation to an average 4.6 percent, and reducing the fiscal deficit to 3.4 percent in 2018-19. He also said India has managed to contain the debt-to-GDP ratio at 46.5 percent in year 2017-18. He added that at the same time, public investments, development initiatives and poverty alleviation programs have been further expanded.
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