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Pressing the Indian Growth Accelerator: Policy Imperatives

By Rakesh Mohan, Muneesh Kapur

March 11, 2015

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Rakesh Mohan, and Muneesh Kapur. Pressing the Indian Growth Accelerator: Policy Imperatives, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2015) accessed November 23, 2024
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Summary

India’s real GDP growth slipped substantially after the North Atlantic financial crisis. Return to a sustained high growth trajectory is feasible but it will need much more focused attention to the revival of manufacturing and to the acceleration of investment in transport and infrastructure. The immediate priority is to achieve the kind of fiscal quality and low inflation levels exhibited during 2003-08, with focused attention to increasing efficiency and compliance in tax revenue collection. Higher tax revenues can facilitate increases in public investment, which then crowd in private investment. The task ahead will be more difficult in view of the protracted slowdown in global growth and trade.

Subject: Economic sectors, Expenditure, Infrastructure, Manufacturing, National accounts, Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP), Public sector, Transportation

Keywords: Base GDP series, Capital Account, East Asia, Economic growth, Exchange rate, Fiscal Policy, Foreign exchange, GDP ratio, Global, Growth, India, Infrastructure, Infrastructure investment, Infratsructure, Investment rate, Manufacturing, Monetary policy, Per capita income, Personal income, Private sector investment, Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP), Public sector, Savings, Taxation, Transportation, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    40

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2015/053

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2015053

  • ISBN:

    9781498301114

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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