India may achieve potential growth rate with recent measures: IMF

22 Apr 2013 Evaluate

The International Monetary Fund (IMF), an international organization of 188 countries working to foster global monetary cooperation and financial stability, in its latest edition of annual Fiscal Monitor report has said that India would achieve its potential growth rate on the back of recent measures taken by the government like liberalising foreign direct investment, putting pending projects on fast track and fiscal consolidation. It has said that at a time when many countries are facing challenges on the fiscal consolidation front, India with its favorable interest rate growth differential has an advantage in addressing deficit concerns in 2013.

According to the report, the overall debt situation in most emerging market economies and low-income countries remains more favorable than in advanced economies, owing in part to relatively low levels of debt and deficits combined with low interest rates and growing economies.

Anoop Singh Director of the Asia and Pacific Department, IMF has said that potential growth in India could certainly go from current level as the government is acting on a number of areas, he further stated that IMF believes that India has the potential of a higher growth rate than it is now.

IMF report attributed much of the improved picture globally to concerted efforts by governments to bring spending under control following the peak of the crisis in 2009  and has highlighted that in India, subsidy reduction measures, other spending cuts and tax administrative measures recommended by the government-appointed Kelkar Commission will contribute to a reduction in the projected 2013 deficit of about 0.75 per cent of GDP relative to previous forecasts.

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