Coronavirus ‘drastically altered’ India’s growth outlook, says RBI
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The central bank in its Monetary Policy Report said that the outlook for India’s economic recovery has been sharply altered by the coronavirus outbreak, underlining the pandemic’s deepening impact on South Asia’s engine of growth.
“Prior to the outbreak of COVID-19, the outlook for growth for 2020-21 was looking up,” the Reserve Bank of India said.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically altered this outlook. The global economy is expected to slump into recession in 2020, as post-COVID projections indicate.”
The economy of India has expanded in its slowest pace in more than six years in the last three months of 2019. It was projected to clock in full-year growth of 5% which would be the lowest in over a decade.
Any benefit seen in the terms of trade from a prolonged downturn in the price of international crude is also unlikely to offset the economic drag from the coronavirus-induced lockdown of the country and loss of external demand, the central bank said.
The RBI said that conditions remained highly uncertain and it is refraining from providing any projections on GDP growth.
Describing the present environment as “highly fluid”, the central bank said that it is assessing the “the intensity, spread and duration of COVID-19.”
The RBI in an emergency move late last month cut its key lending rate by a bigger-than-hoped 75 basis points and announced several measures to inject rupee and dollar liquidity in the domestic markets.
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