India needs to make efforts to reach double-digit GDP growth: EAC-PM member

20 May 2019 Evaluate

Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister's (EAC-PM) member Shamika Ravi has said that India needs to make all efforts to reach double-digit Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth and should not treat 7 percent increase as the 'new normal'. She explained “the new normal of 7 percent or perhaps weakening further because of the global trends cannot be the new normal for a country with per capita income that we do have.”

Ravi also asserted that there needs to be reinforcement of mechanisms through which India can continue to aspire for double digit growth. She maintained that India is unlikely to fall into the middle income trap. She also said 'I don't think India can afford that (middle income trap). I don't think India is going to fall into the middle income trap like Brazil or South Africa.”

The EAC-PM member further said that India should not lose fiscal discipline which it maintained during the last five years of the Narendra Modi government. She pointed out that states which are ranked high in ease of doing business have low unemployment rate compared to the all-India average. She stated that it is important to realise that the recipe for job creation will also eventually come through entrepreneurship and noted that the government cannot be final provider of jobs.” She also stressed on the need to improve fundamental quality of India's data systems.

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