The survey said business leaders, who are chief experience officers (CXOs), in India are confident that Budget 2023-24 will help fuel economic growth across sectors and industries, amid a potential global slowdown and geopolitical instability.
The positive outlook for 2023 is despite concerns emanating from the global slowdown and a possible recession in the Western economies due to the unwinding of monetary policy by central banks.
While responding to a query over the slowdown in clearing visas backlog for Indian tourists, Price admitted that there was a delay but also said, "Our embassy and consulates in India broke their all-time record for the number of student visas issued in a single fiscal year. We have issued
The Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) President A Sakthivel has said India's exports coming back in the positive territory was on the expected lines but the challenges would continue due to the ongoing slowdown in demand and rising inflation in several economies.
High inflation, Fitch Ratings said, may increase the operating costs of vehicles and the cost of living, which may hurt operators' debt servicing capacity.
For other EMEs, the World Bank in the report said impacts from the US, euro area, and China are at least 1.5 times larger than for India. It added India's relative resilience comes from its solid economic fundamentals, significant foreign exchange reserves, available policy space and prudent
"There're challenges of geopolitical crisis in Europe, breakdown of supply chains, the crisis of climate action, poverty, inflation & slowdown of global growth. Amid such a crisis India is taking the G20 presidency, we believe every crisis is an opportunity," Kant said at the first si
The risk of the Chinese ecnomy going into a tailspin has increased, with the country's realty sector facing a crisis due to extreme borrowings by construction contractors, reported Channel News Asia.
Although the South Korean economy continued to grow for nine consecutive quarters since March 2020 (2.3 per cent), the growth rate has decreased to a half of the second quarter (0.7 per cent). In particular, trade balance has significantly decreased. Exports increased 1.1 per cent due to dec
For the record, the US Federal Reserve on November 3 raised key interest rates in its fight against red-hot inflation in the country. It raised the key policy rate by 75 basis points to over a decade high at 3.75-4.0 per cent. Notably, this was the fourth consecutive hike of such magnitude.
Apart from delay in making special economic zones, the COVID-19 pandemic, political and policy stability and non-ease of doing business were responsible for CPEC's slowdown.