OECD retains India GDP growth projection at 6.9 pc for FY'23

Economic grouping OECD in a report on Monday retained the GDP growth projections for India at 6.9 percent for the current financial year despite the global economy losing momentum in wake of the Russia-Ukraine war.

The projection by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is lower than the Reserve Bank's growth forecast of 7.2 for 2022-23. The growth last year (2021-22) was 8.7 percent.

Indian economy expanded by 13.5 percent in the April-June quarter, sequentially higher than 4.10 percent in the January-March period.

''Softer external demand is a factor in India's projected slowdown from 8.7 percent annual growth in FY2021-22 to around 7 percent in FY 2022-23 and around 5¾ percent in FY 2023-24, but this still represents rapid growth in the context of a weak global economy,'' the OECD’s latest Interim Economic Outlook said.

In the June 2022 Economic Outlook, the OECD projected the GDP growth for India at 6.9 percent.

The global economy has lost momentum in the wake of Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine, which is dragging down growth and putting additional upward pressure on inflation worldwide, according to the OECD's latest Interim Economic Outlook.

The outlook projects global growth at a modest 3 percent this year before slowing further to just 2.2 percent in 2023.

This is well below the pace of economic growth projected before the war and represents around USD 2.8 trillion in foregone global output in 2023, it said.

It further said growth in China has also been hit and is expected to drop to a projected 3.2 percent in 2022.

Except for the 2020 pandemic, this will be the lowest growth rate in China since the 1970s, said the Interim Economic Outlook.

Inflation is projected to recede gradually through 2023 in most G20 countries as tighter monetary policy takes effect and global growth slows.

Headline inflation is projected to ease from 8.2 percent this year to 6.6 percent in 2023 in the G20 economies, and fall from 6.2 percent this year to 4 percent in 2023 in the G20 advanced economies.

The report projects inflation for India at 6.7 percent, at the same level as in its June 22 Economic Outlook.

S&P Global Ratings has retained its projection of India's economic growth at 7.3 percent for the current fiscal, while ADB and Fitch have pegged the growth estimate at 7 percent.

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