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      IMF Lowers Global Growth Forecast, Cites India Slowdown

      IMF Chief Economist Gita Gopinath said that India accounts for a "lion's share" of the blame for low global estimates.

      By - Archis Chowdhury |
      Published -  21 Jan 2020 5:25 PM IST
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      IMF Lowers Global Growth Forecast, Cites India Slowdown

      As the International Monetary Fund slashed the global economic forecast on Monday, Chief Economist Gita Gopinath put the "lion's share" of the blame on India, while speaking at the World Economic Forum at Davos.

      India's growth estimate for the current fiscal year was further slashed to 4.8%, owing to the crisis in non-banking financial sector and weak rural demand. The global growth estimate was brought down to 1.9%, marking a 0.1% cut from the previous estimate.

      In this update to the #WEO, we project global growth to increase modestly from 2.9% in 2019 to 3.3% in 2020 and 3.4% in 2021. Check out the latest projections. https://t.co/WBs8djIaIZ pic.twitter.com/YgJlXS2afe

      — IMF (@IMFNews) January 20, 2020

      Slowing It Down

      Guwahati, Assam - September 23, 2019: Indian labourer carries a bag of onions at a wholesale market in Guwahati. Flooding in Maharashtra and Karnataka led to bad harvest of onions, leading to skyrocketing prices around the country.


      The new revised estimates for India are 4.8% for the current fiscal year, which is expected to grow to a 5.8% for FY20-21 and up to 6.5% for FY21-22. This marks a cut of 1.3%, 1.2% and 0.9%, respectively, for the previous growth estimates of these 3 fiscal years.

      For FY19-20, the SBI group and World Bank had previously pegged India's growth estimate to 4.6% and 5%, respectively.


      The revised global estimates stand at 2.9% for 2019, 3.3% for 2020 and 3.4% for 2021. These estimates were slashed by 0.1%, 0.1% and 0.2% from the previous estimates for these fiscal years.

      The IMF in its report stated that the "downward revision primarily reflects negative surprises to economic activity in a few emerging market economies, notably India, which led to a reassessment of growth prospects over the next two years." The report further stated that "this reassessment also reflects the impact of increased social unrest."

      Speaking to India Today, Indian-born Gita Gopinath, who's currently the Chief Economist of IMF, claimed that India's contribution to the slashing of global growth estimates was over 80%.

      "The first two quarters of India came in weaker than we projected. One sector where we are seeing the most stress is the financial sector -- the non-bank financial corporations. We have seen a sharp decline in credit growth and a weakened business sentiment. All this led to the revised numbers," said Gopinath to India Today News Director Rahul Kanwal at the 50th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum.

      #IndiaTodayAtDavos20
      What's important for India's growth? IMF Chief Economist @GitaGopinath tells us as she speaks #exclusively to @rahulkanwal#Newstrack LIVE https://t.co/4fqxBVUizL pic.twitter.com/KmTEc2k9qs

      — India Today (@IndiaToday) January 20, 2020

      India was not the only bad apple. The IMF also pointed fingers at a group of "underperforming and stressed emerging market and developing economies", which includes "Brazil, India, Mexico, Russia, and Turkey" for dragging down global economy.

      Inequality On The Rise

      IMF's revised projections come two days after Oxfam's scathing report on inequality around the world, with a grim look at the state of affairs in India. The report claimed that in 2018, 63 Indian billionaires had more wealth than the combined Union Budget for that year (Rs. 24,42,200 crore). Moreover, the top 1% of Indians held more than 4 times the wealth owned by the bottom 70%

      Also Read Wealth Of 63 Indian Billionaires Higher Than 2018 Union Budget: Oxfam

      India Not Growing, Yet Inequality Is: @OxfamIndia CEO @AmitabhBehar Tells @NDTV's @VishnuNDTV in #Davos where he released @Oxfam's inequality report. https://t.co/nj7gzt36Fp #Davos20 @wef

      — Oxfam India (@OxfamIndia) January 21, 2020
      The Oxfam report repeatedly stated that the current economic practices around the world were highly sexist, which diminished the economic potential for both emerging and developed economies.

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      IMFIndiaWorld Economic Foruminternational monetary fundGita Gopinatheconomy
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