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Indian economy

Too Pleasing?

The Economic Survey seems to have deliberately ignored adverse facts. While talking about robustness of the IT sector, no mention is made of the unprecedented global slowdown that has seen revenue losses and record lay-offs in global market leaders like Netflix, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Apple which are directly affecting the Indian IT Sector, bringing the NIFTY IT down 11.4 per cent y-o-y, and leading to approximately 25,000 lay-offs 

Ill-winds

The adverse factors affecting the US and European economies put our own economy at risk. To enumerate: the Indian economy faces the danger of capital outflow because of higher US interest rates. Then, we are importing inflation through higher cost of imported goods and because household incomes in the West are falling, our own exports are unlikely to rise in the short run, ruling out a quick solution to the CAD problem