Amid several factors – both structural and transient – that have contributed to an above 8% real GDP growth in the first three quarters of FY24, one of them was a low GDP deflator. An implicit price ...

Does the GDP growth for the first quarter of 2025-26 present the correct picture? The real GDP growth for the June quarter of 2025-26, at 7.8 per cent, came as a surprise to most analysts, who had ...

This Economic Letter discusses a topic that at first glance appears to be boring and technical but that in fact turns out to be quite important: the proper interpretation of chain-weighted data. To ...

Even as the real growth rate hit a five-quarter high in April-June quarter this fiscal, nominal growth rate has dipped to a three-quarter low. Fiscal deficit could be impacted if it is lower at an ...