Raghuram Rajan cautions not to get influenced by sharp rebound in industrial growth

14 Dec 2012 Evaluate

Government’s chief economic advisor Raghuram Rajan said that any sweeping conclusion on the sharp rebound in industrial growth in October should not be drawn. The industrial production growth, as measured by the index of industrial production, rose to a 16-month high of 8.2 per cent in October.

Raghuram Rajan said that “We should not be overly influenced by one number especially given that there are some issues like base effect with the IIP number. We should take it as part of a pattern that hopefully the economic growth is stabilizing.” He expressed his confidence on economic recovery and said that India’s economic growth is stabilizing and government's efforts in accelerating the pace of project completion should strengthen the economic recovery in near term.

The economic advisor though said that the domestic economy will be influenced by developments in the US and the Euro zone countries, but India has the capability to harness many domestic sources of growth and said that India’s economy will recover based on its domestic sources and specific measures recently taken by the government rather than the weak demand of export from the eurozone and stress even in East Asia, which is a big part of the production.

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