India requires capital inflows of $70bn p.a to bring CAD to 2.3%: PMEAC

04 Oct 2012 Evaluate

With the continued efforts to bring down the mounting Current Account Deficit (CAD), the Prime Minister's Economic Council Chairman C Rangarajan pointed that the nation might require about $50 - 70 billion per annum for next five years to bring down the deficit rate to 2.3% of GDP. The council noted that it will be a challenging task to garner such huge amount of capital investments into the nation amid increasing global risk aversions and slowing growth.

Even though, the former Reserve Bank Governor has remained confident that CAD will be minimized to 3.5% of GDP in the present fiscal. He blamed merchandise trade deficit for peaking CAD, the difference between foreign exchange earned and foreign exchange expended to 3.9% in the first quarter of the year. Though it was better than Q4 last year’s 4.5% on the back of slowing imports.

The current deficit had reached at a historic high of 4.3% of GDP for the full year in FY12, while in Q2 of last fiscal it had touched a whopping 4.5% of GDP. While, the gold and silver imports had come down to 47.5% compared to the previous year and growth in non-oil, non-gold imports also declined about 0.3% on year-on-year basis, due to dip in domestic demand, hike in customs duty on gold and as rupee depreciated against US dollars.

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