UNCTAD sees India growth at 5% in 2021 Economy news

Creative Creation
1 min readMar 21, 2021

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The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on Thursday said India’s Covid-19 stimulus fell short of initial announcements, leading to a lower than expected economic performance in 2020.

In its Trade and Development 2020 update, it said the relief measures adopted by India were not only much smaller in scale, but also centred on easing supply side constraints and providing liquidity support rather than aggregate demand support. UNCTAD expects India’s GDP to have contracted 6.9% in 2020 and grow 5% in 2021, attributing the stronger recovery projected for 2021 to the deeper-than-expected downturn in 2020.

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“Moreover, restrictions to people’s movement not only severely affected incomes and consumption, they also proved largely unsuccessful in containing the spread of the virus,” the UN agency said in its report titled ‘Out of the frying pan… into the fire’.

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As a result, it said, the fall in economic activity proved to be larger than it had envisaged in mid-2020. “The budget for the fiscal year from April 2021 to March 2022 also points to a shift towards demand-side stimulus, with an uptick in public investment (particularly in transport infrastructure) for the coming fiscal year,” it said, adding that an anticipated recovery in global demand will also help buoy the export sector through 2021.

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