Indian economy witnessing tentative positive growth momentum: OECD

10 Dec 2013 Evaluate

As per the Paris-based think tank Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a grouping of mostly developed nations, Indian economy is witnessing tentative positive growth momentum. OECD highlighted that Composite Leading Indicators (CLIs), designed to anticipate turning points in economic activity, remained unchanged at 97.6 in month of October as compared to the previous month.

The OECD further reported that besides India, China and Russia too are showing similar trends. Meanwhile, among the emerging economies, the CLIs point to growth around trend in Brazil. Referring to the other nations, Paris-based think tank noted that CLI for the US and Canada indicates a positive change in momentum. In the European region, CLIs continue to indicate a positive growth trends for France and Italy.

India economy recorded a higher-than-expected economic growth of 4.8 percent in the September quarter on the back of better agriculture and factory output. In the April-June quarter, GDP expansion had touched a four-year low of 4.4 percent. Meanwhile, OECD had expected that Indian economy's growth to improve marginally with its GDP at market price projected to expand by 3.4 percent in the current financial year from 3.3 percent in the previous fiscal citing that rupee depreciation is putting pressures on inflation, public finances, corporate and banks with high external debt exposure. On global front, it expected the pace of the global recovery will remain weak due to the worsened outlook for some emerging economies. The OECD projects world economy to grow 2.7 percent this year and accelerate to 3.6 percent in 2014.

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