IMF Cuts India Growth Forecast To 6.8% In FY2022-23

12 Oct 2022 , 08:21 AM

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday cut its projection of Indias economic growth in 2022 to 6.8 per cent, as it joins other global agencies that have trimmed forecasts, as per figures released in the IMFs October 2022 World Economic Outlook. The IMF had in July projected a gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 7.4 per cent for India in the fiscal year that started in April 2022. For the next year 2023, India has been projected to grow at 6%. For the world as a whole, growth will slow down from 6.0% in 2021 to 3.2% in 2022 and 2.7% in 2023, with advanced economies growing 1.1 percent and emerging market and developing economies 3.7 percent. This is the weakest growth profile since 2001 except for the global financial crisis and the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Global inflation is forecast to rise from 4.7 percent in 2021 to 8.8 percent in 2022 but to decline to 6.5 percent in 2023 and to 4.1 percent by 2024. Global economic activity is experiencing a broad-based and sharper-than-expected slowdown, with inflation higher than seen in several decades. The cost-of-living crisis, tightening financial conditions in most regions, Russias invasion of Ukraine, and the lingering COVID-19 pandemic all weigh heavily on the outlook. the IMF stated. Powered by Capital Market – Live News