After more than a decade of questions and debates, India is set to finally get an updated gauge of its GDP, with the Ministry ...

The sharp uptick was largely due to the impact of GDP deflators, which remained unusually soft, particularly in the primary and secondary sectors ...

India's official GDP figures have misrepresented the trajectory of the world's fifth-largest economy for the better part of ...

A recent working paper claims that India overstated its annual growth by up to two percentage points from 2012 to 2023, while growth between 2005 and 2011 was underestimated by about one to 1.5 ...

Economists remain divided on whether the unrevised WPI base will distort real GDP estimates as India shifts its GDP base year to 2022-23, even as CPI has been rebased ...

India’s GDP growth between 2012 and 2023 may have been overstated, with actual expansion closer to 4–4.5% a year than the official estimate of about 6%, says a working paper by Abhishek Anand, Josh Fe ...

(Reuters) -India's economy unexpectedly expanded 7.8% year-on-year in the April-June quarter, picking up from 7.4% in the previous three months, data released on Friday showed. Economists polled by ...

Reliable macroeconomic statistics are fundamental to economic governance. Last year, the IMF, even while revising India’s GDP growth projections upwards, assigned a “C” rating to our National Accounts ...

The recent rebasing of India's GDP has ignited a lively discussion among economists. Although official statistics indicate a boost in genuine growth, the use of a low deflator raises concerns ...

If measurement itself becomes a subject of debate, the informational foundations of economic policymaking inevitably weaken ...