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GDP growth

The Economic Impact of COVID-19 in Central Asia

Dr Pravesh Kumar Gupta, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

Introduction

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is so profound that the world will never be the same again. Human communication, social norms and habits have transformed immensely due to this. More digitalisation and less physical intera....

December 11, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Central Asia , Article , Kyrgyzstan , Kazakhstan , Uzbekistan , GDP growth , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan , Tourism , COVID-19 , World Bank , IMF , lockdown , Remittances , Foreign Trade , Aid , Budget , ADB

Battle against Slow GDP Growth Rate

Rajesh Singh

The Central Statistics Office recently reported that the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth had slipped to a three-year low of 5.7 per cent for the April-June quarter of the current fiscal. This is in contrast to the preceding quarter gr....

September 12, 2017 Economic Studies , GDP growth , demonetization , economic fundamentals

GDP numbers-First time, how reliable?

Prof R Vaidyanathan

India’s economic growth for the financial year 2016 has been estimated at 7.6 per cent as compared with the revised estimate of 7.2 per cent in the previous year, aided mostly by growth in the manufacturing sector. However, the GDP growth for th....

February 27, 2016 Economic Studies , India’s economic growth , GDP growth , 2016

Avoiding the Fall; Michael Pettis; Carnegie Endowment 2013; PP 157; Price Rs 1238 & The Great Rebalancing; Michael Pettis; Princeton University Press 2013; PP 219; Price Rs 1859

Amb Prabhat P Shukla

It makes sense to review the two books together and not just because they are written by the same author, and within a short period of each other [both were written in 2013]. The more compelling reason for doing so is that they deal with the same phe....

April 07, 2014 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Chinese economy , GDP growth , Book Reviews , Global Economy