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Tracking India’s Growth Trajectory UPSC NOTE

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  Complexities and nuances involved in assessing India's economic situation The conventional way to assess a country’s economic situati...

 Complexities and nuances involved in assessing India's economic situation

  • The conventional way to assess a country’s economic situation is to look at the quarterly (three-month) and annual (12-month) GDP (gross-domestic-product) growth rate and compare it to previous quarters as well as years.

Calculating GDP:

  • The first factor to consider is that calculating the GDP growth rate involves many complex statistical choices and sophisticated statistical operations.

  • One such decision the NSO made while conducting their research was to use the income approach of calculating GDP rather than the expenditure approach. 

  • The income approach involves summing up all national incomes from the factors of production and accounting for other elements such as taxes, depreciation, and net foreign factor income. 

  • The assumption generally is that both methods lead to similar results.

  • For instance, the Q1 data covering the GDP growth rate from April to June of FY24 is 7.8%.

  • However, the expenditure approach dictates headline growth to be 4.5% rather than 7.8% which is a large discrepancy. 

  • Moreover, another essential statistical operation is the adjusting for inflation using the price deflator. 

  • Typically, the deflator is meant to adjust growth figures when they are overstated by inflation. 

  • In this case, deflation due to falling commodity prices, reflected in the wholesale price index, has worked to overstate the real growth.

  • Furthermore, there is a base effect from the COVID-19 degrowth period, which continues to plague India’s growth figures. 

  • Although less pronounced in FY24, the base effect has a role in comparative statistics due to sporadic growth in the years following FY20-21.

  • Additionally, one must consider whether the proposed, supposedly cooled, inflation rate calculated through the consumer price index can be sustained at current levels with the impending depreciation of the Indian rupee against the dollar due to capital outflow pressures resulting from the RBI’s reluctance to raise interest rates.

  • India is a net importer, and its most significant import consists of crude petroleum, whose price seems to be rising due to Saudi’s $100 per barrel push and rupee depreciation. 

  • The domestic consumption of diesel, a proxy for economic activity in India, fell by 3% in August, which, if sustained, does not paint a rosy growth picture for the coming quarters.

Revenue from taxes:

  • The government’s tax revenue from direct taxes has weakened over the previous quarter while the indirect tax revenue remained strong, indicating a K-shaped pattern. 

  • The income streams from progressive taxation (more significant tax burden on those higher on the income ladder) seem to be a backward compared to its regressive counterpart. 

  • A muted growth of direct tax collected in an economy boosted by the services industry is a statistical discrepancy which remains unexplained in the proposed GDP growth story. 

  • Direct and personal taxes should (in the absence of any significant policy changes) have grown closer to the nominal growth rate than it has currently. 

  • Narrowing revenue streams indicate forced austerity measures, as the government intends to control the budget deficit, and hence the interest rate. 

  • Therefore, growth in FY24 stemming from government expenditure seems to be a pipe dream.

Conclusion:

  • In conclusion, after a meticulous analysis of India’s Q1 FY24 economic transcript, it becomes palpable that the reported growth narrative might be somewhat over embellished. 

  • The divergence in growth figures brought forth by the income and expenditure approaches manifest a significant disparity, raising fundamental questions about the veracity of the promulgated optimistic narrative. 

  • Moreover, the underpinnings of this growth story, nuanced by inflationary adjustments and conspicuous fluctuations in tax revenue streams, signal a cautious trajectory. 

  • Additionally, the apprehensive outlook on the agriculture sector and potential fiscal constraints paint an arguably more restrained picture than initially portrayed. 

  • Therefore, it seems prudent to assert that India’s economic performance, although showing signs of resilience, does not quite emerge as the unequivocal success story depicted in initial observations, urging a more nuanced and critical approach in assessing the trajectory ahead.

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